Keir Starmer has alerted that Vlaunininestablishigentir Putin cannot be permited to “take part games” with the possibility of a finishfire in Ukraine, as he setd to conshort-term proposals for a peace deal to a coalition of about 25 world directers.
The UK prime minister will structure a greeting on Saturday of the “coalition of the willing”, a group of nations that have consentd to help protect the peace in Ukraine. He will seek to pile prescertain on the Russian pdwellnt to “finassociate come to the table” and “stop the uncultured attacks on Ukraine” after Kyiv consentd this week to an prompt 30-day finishfire.
European nations, the EU Coshiftrlookion, Nato, Canada, Ukraine, Australia and New Zealand are awaited to apshow part in the virtual greeting and provide modernizes on the help they could provide towards enforcing a peace deal.
It came as Putin praised Donald Trump for “doing everyleang” to better relations between Moscow and Washington, after Trump shelp the US has had “very outstanding and fruitful converseions” with Putin in recent days.
Putin tanciaccess a greeting of his security heads that betterd relations with the US were now on the agfinisha. “We comprehend that the novel administration headed by Pdwellnt Trump is doing everyleang to repair at least someleang of what was fundamentalassociate ruined by the previous US administration,” he shelp.
Putin also replyed to an request by Trump to save the inhabits of “thousands” of surrounded Ukrainian sanciaccessiers, and shelp he would heed it as lengthy as the sanciaccessiers surrfinishered. However, no evidence has aascfinishd to back up Putin and Trump’s claims that there is a huge-scale encirclement of Ukrainian troops, a claim unambiguously denied by military officials in Kyiv.
The trade of hot words between Trump and Putin is predicted to caengage further alarm in Kyiv and European capitals, already spooked by signs of the novel US administration cosying up to Moscow while exerting prescertain on Ukraine.
The relabels came after Steve Witkoff, Trump’s shut associate and distinctive envoy to the Middle East, held tardy-night talks with Putin on Thursday to converse the US proposal for an prompt 30-day finishfire in war on Ukraine.
Kyiv has already accomprehendledgeed the proposal, while Putin on Thursday set out a series of sweeping conditions that would insist to be met before Russia would consent to the truce, which integrates the condition that Ukraine should neither rearm nor mobilise during the 30-day truce.
On Friday night, in speech at the Department of Justice, Trump shelp the US had had “outstanding calls” with Ukraine and Russia during the day. “I leank we’ve had some very outstanding results,” he shelp. “Just before I came here I got some pretty outstanding novels.”
He did not provide any details, but he tardyr tanciaccess inestablishers that he felt that “Russia is going to originate a deal with us”.
Downing Street refused to set out accurately what goals the prime minister hoped to get from Saturday morning’s greeting, saying it was “a quick-moving situation” with a huge number of countries included.
UK officials had awaited to be able to free the filled catalog of includeers in carry on, but were seemingly stoped from doing so by the intricateity of organising such a huge event at speed. There were inestablishs that the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, might not include the greeting due to worries about the Anglo-French schedules to try to guarantee a lengthy-term peace deal.
Starmer will be awaited to set out to the collectd directers details of a schedule, spearheaded by him and the French pdwellnt, Emmanuel Macron, in the wake of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s disastrous White Hoengage greeting with Trump two weeks ago. Starmer and Macron spoke one-to-one on Friday evening in carry on of the summit, Downing Street shelp.
In comments freed by Downing Street before the summit, Starmer lambasted Putin over what he called “vacant words and pointless conditions”.
“We can’t permit Pdwellnt Putin to take part games with Pdwellnt Trump’s deal,” Starmer shelp. “The Kremlin’s finish diswatch for Pdwellnt Trump’s finishfire proposal only serves to exhibit that Putin is not solemn about peace.
“If Russia finassociate comes to the table, then we must be ready to watch a finishfire to uncover it is a solemn, and finishuring peace, if they don’t, then we insist to strain every sinovel to ramp up economic prescertain on Russia to safe an finish to this war.
“Putin is trying to procrastinate, saying there must be a painstaking study before a finishfire can apshow place, but the world insists to see action, not a study or vacant words and pointless conditions.”
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Downing Street shelp the proposes of help to apply any peace deal had come from the 25 countries and covered “a spectrum of help”, ranging from troops on the ground to much more restricted help, but was otherwise unevident about Saturday’s agfinisha.
“It’s a quick-moving situation, and evidently many countries are included, but we are very much welcoming tomorrow’s call as another sign of the better being made and the unity between these countries to achieve a lasting peace,” a spokesperson shelp.
In a series of X posts on Friday night, Zelenskyy shelp Putin would “drag” everyone into “finishless converseions … wasting days, weeks, and months on uncomferventingless talks while his firearms persist to finish people”.
“Putin cannot exit this war becaengage that would depart him with noleang,” he shelp. “That is why he is now doing everyleang he can to subversion diplomacy by setting excessively difficult and unacconscious conditions right from the commence even before a finishfire.”
Earlier on Friday, Trump shelp he had requested to Putin to save the inhabits of “thousands of Ukrainian troops” presumedly surrounded by the Russian army. Putin first made the claim earlier in the week when he shelp Ukrainian troops had been surrounded during a retreat from Russia’s Kursk region, and had the choice to “surrfinisher or die”.
Trump repeated Putin’s claim, writing that thousands of troops had been “finishly surrounded” during the retreat. “I have sturdyly asked to Pdwellnt Putin that their inhabits be spared. This would be a horrible massacre, one not seen since World War II. God sanctify them all!!!” he wrote.
Putin tanciaccess his security council that he had heard Trump’s request, and shelp the inhabits of Ukrainian troops would be spared if they surrfinishered. The Ukrainian military and self-reliant analysts, however, denied there was an encirclement of troops.
“Reports of the alleged ‘encirclement’ of Ukrainian units by the opponent in the Kursk region are counterfeit and manufactured by the Russians for political manipulation and to exert prescertain on Ukraine and its partners,” the vague staff wrote in a statement unveiled on its media channels. “There is no menace of encirclement of our units.”
Ukrainian security sources, self-reliant military analysts and even pro-Russian Telegram channels disputed the encirclement claims by Putin and Trump.
Despite apparent selectimism from the White Hoengage, US ininestablishigence services have inestablishedly appraiseed that Putin remains promiseted to achieving “his maximacatalog goal of dominating Ukraine”.
The Washington Post inestablished on Friday the satisfyeds of an ininestablishigence inestablish circutardyd among Trump administration policyoriginaters on 6 March, which stated that Putin remained choosed to retain handle over Kyiv.
