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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and fellow leaders of NATO will come together next week extolling their remarkable unity backing Ukraine in its war with Russia. But serious differences over expansion of the transatlantic alliance threaten to disrupt the harmony and turn the annual summit on its head.

Ukraine welcomed the U.S. decision to provide cluster munitions, with Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov outlining “five key principles” that he said would govern the use of the controversial weapons.

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President Joe Biden leaves on Sunday for Europe, where he'll spend four days in three nations tending to alliances that have been tested by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Prime minister rules out following controversial US move but says he will urge allies to increase other aid

Joe Biden said he had ‘made the difficult’ decision to send the bombs as because the ‘Ukrainians are running out of ammunition’

The prime minister did not back US President Joe Biden after his controversial decision

Britain is one of 123 signatories of a convention banning their use.

One of the smallest members of NATO is preparing to hold one of the most important summits in the alliance’s 74-year history

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also called for a return to peace talks saying, ‘a fair peace creates no losers’.