Britain and France are to lead a desperate European attempt to salvage peace hopes in Ukraine, with a plan to end the war that would include an initial one-month truce with Russia, covering air, sea and infrastructure.
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said after a summit in London on Sunday that Europe would step in as intermediaries for Volodymyr Zelenskyy to try to “stop the fighting”, after the Ukrainian leader’s explosive row with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are promoting a deal which they hope would see Trump provide US cover for troops from a European “coalition of the willing” deployed to secure any ceasefire in Ukraine.