India, May 25 -- A major fracture has emerged inside NATO after the United Kingdom and France reportedly rejected a controversial proposal by Secretary General Mark Rutte to force alliance members to dedicate 0.25% of GDP specifically toward arming Ukraine, exposing growing resistance within the Western bloc over the escalating financial and military burden of the war against Russia.

The proposal, pushed aggressively by Rutte ahead of the next NATO summit, aimed to institutionalize military support for Kiev by creating a mandatory funding mechanism across the alliance. Under the plan, NATO countries would allocate an additional quarter percent of their GDP exclusively for Ukraine-related weapons supplies, ammunition production, and mili...