The UK Govt is mobilising with allies to ensure Ukraine is not cut out of a US-Russia agreed peace plan ahead of crunch talks on Friday.
The PM, with the leaders of France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Finland and the European Commission, said on Saturday “the path to peace […] cannot be decided without Ukraine” and stressed “international borders must not be changed by force”.
JD Vance and David Lammy during a meeting at Chevening House, the Foreign Secretary’s Grade summer residence near Sevenoaks in Kent, where Lammy is hosting the Vance family (Photo: Suzanne Plunkett/WPA Pool/Getty)
A No10 source told The i Paper the meetings were “constructive, and productive”.
They said the US was “rightly credited” for having “enabled a strong platform for progress”.
“He will be playing his full part in seizing this opportunity to bring an end to this illegal war and peace for the Ukrainian people.”
But EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas will convene a meeting of European foreign ministers on Monday to discuss next steps, as she insisted Ukraine and the EU must be involved in any deal.
Kallas added that “international law is clear: all temporarily occupied territories belong to Ukraine”.
It will be up to Trump – and Trump alone – to secure a peace deal that Ukraine can live with (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)But President Volodymyr Zelensky has already rejected any proposal that would compromise Ukraine’s territorial integrity, something that is forbidden by Ukraine’s constitution.
Adding that they were “ready to support this work diplomatically” and through military and financial support for Kyiv, they reiterated the need for “robust and credible security guarantees” for Ukraine and their own “unwavering support” for the country.
The position of Starmer, and his fellow leaders, puts him at odds with reports coming out of the US that Trump is hoping to persuade European countries that a deal could see Russia taking Ukrainian territory.
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Dr Melanie Garson, a lecturer in conflict resolution and international security at University College London (UCL) suggested the diverging views on Ukraine between the US and UK could enable them to operate a “good cop/bad cop” negotiation style.
“It may also be that having Zelensky at the table at this stage is premature as given Trump has met Zelensky 1:1 recently – he has to accord Putin the same opportunity before making it a multilateral process,” she said.
Sir Tony Brenton, former British ambassador to Russia, told Sky News that he did not think the intervention by Ukraine’s European allies was “proving very helpful”.
“They’ve said, for example, ‘we will never recognise changing borders by force’. Russia took Crimea by force. They’re never going to give it back barring a huge defeat on the battlefield, so what do you do about that? Do you adjust to the reality or do you insist on the principle?”
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