VILNIUS, Lithuania — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday jolted a summit of NATO leaders by blasting their joint statement on his country’s prospective membership, decrying its lack of a concrete timeline as “unprecedented and absurd.”
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Zelensky slams NATO for omitting a timeline for Ukraine to join
Alliance says Ukraine can join when ‘conditions are met.’ Zelensky says the statement is ‘absurd.’
Updated July 11, 2023 at 3:42 p.m. EDT|Published July 11, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. EDT