Ukraine Leaves NATO Summit Without Clear Path to Membership

Ukraine’s leaders came to Vilnius seeking hard security guarantees, more weapons and a clear road map to membership in NATO. Instead, they got mostly reassuring words and loose pledges to help Kyiv defend itself.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization wrapped up two days of meetings Wednesday having reaffirmed political commitments to Ukraine and promised to restock its arsenal, but without agreeing to a timeline for its admission to the alliance.

President Biden, during a speech at Vilnius University in front of thousands of Lithuanians waving American flags, sought to rally the Baltic countries—which share borders with Russia and its ally Belarus—against Russian President Vladimir Putin.