NATO leaders gather in bid to boslter support for Ukraine

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Western leaders gather in Lithuania's capital on Monday to demonstrate solidarity with Ukraine amid rare glimmers of disunity over Washington's controversial decision to supply cluster bombs to Kyiv. President Volodymyr Zelensky voiced hope that Tuesday's NATO summit in Vilnius would provide a "clear signal" that Kyiv could join the alliance once its war with Russia is over. Keen to expose any hint of friction among the allies, the Kremlin fired an eve-of-summit warning that Ukraine's membership of the military alliance would have "very, very negative consequences for the entire security architecture in Europe." On the battlefront, Ukraine's counteroffensive ground on,...