Sir Keir Starmer will join Volodymyr Zelensky and other top European leaders in Washington for talks with Donald Trump tomorrow.
The Prime Minister ‘stands ready to support this next phase of further talks and will reaffirm that his backing for Ukraine will continue for as long as it takes’, Downing Street said.
It comes after the US president met with Vladimir Putin for a high-risk meeting in Alaska on Friday – one that Kyiv was not invited to.
After literally giving the Russian president the red carpet treatment, Trump split from European allies by backing Putin’s Ukraine peace agreement.
The Kremlin’s plan to end its grinding, three-year-long war in Ukraine would see the country be cut apart, with some land given to Russia.
Trump believes that a peace deal would be hashed out quickly if Zelensky agrees to the rest of the Donbas region to Russia – Russia already controls 88% of the region in eastern Ukraine.
He wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, that he, Kyiv and Europe agree that a peace deal to end the war, rather than a ceasefire, is the only option.
‘If all works out, we will then schedule a meeting with President Putin. Potentially, millions of people’s lives will be saved. Thank you for your attention to this matter!’ he added.
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