Biden will meet Zelensky at Nato summit in Lithuania as war with Russia rages on

Joe Biden will meet with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky at the Nato summit in Lithuania on Wednesday, US officials confirmed to The Independent.

The meeting comes as Mr Biden has expressed doubts in recent days about Ukraine’s long-sought goal of joining the trans-Atlantic alliance.

“I don’t think there is unanimity in Nato about whether or not to bring Ukraine into the Nato family now, at this moment, in the middle of a war,” he told CNN last week.

The pair last met in May at a G-7 summit in Japan.

Their discussions will likely center on US aid to Ukraine, as well as bigger-picture security guarantees.

So far, the US has sent more than $76bn in aid to the Eastern European nation, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, more than $46bn of which has been military-related.

Andrew Feinberg contributed reporting to this story.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated with new information.