Evening Update: NATO leaders reaffirm Ukraine will become member, but stop short of providing timetable


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Good evening, let’s start with today’s top stories: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived as a guest at the NATO leaders’ summit today with remarks that suggested he didn’t expect much with regard to his country’s membership in the defence alliance. “It’s unprecedented and absurd when a time frame is set neither for the invitation nor for Ukraine’s membership,” Zelensky tweeted as he headed to the summit. By the end of the day, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s leaders had done little to advance the process. “We reaffirmed Ukraine will become a member of NATO and agreed to remove the requirement...