Sir Keir Starmer is going to Washington to press an unwilling Donald Trump to supply a United States “backstop” to avoid Vladimir Putin introducing a fresh attack on Ukraine after any peace offer.
The UK prime minister is prepared to devote British soldiers to a peacekeeping objective however thinks that United States guarantees are important to “prevent Putin from returning”.
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky will likewise go to Washington to sign an offer on unusual earth minerals on Friday– however alerted that security assurances stay to be chosen as part of the structure financial offer.
The United States will get “a great deal of cash” back from Ukraine under the offer, Donald Trump stated on Wednesday, however signified a rejection to supply very little security assurances to Kyiv in return.
“I’m not going to make security assurances beyond quite– we’re going to have Europe do that,” the United States president informed press reporters, in a blow to Sir Keir’s program for their approaching conference.
Russia previously opposed Mr Trump by stating it highly opposed European peacekeeping forces in Ukraine, with foreign minister Sergei Lavrov declaring that it was a “deceit targeted at sustaining the dispute”.