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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is to satisfy Keir Starmer and the leaders of France and Germany for talks in Downing Street, as US President Donald Trump continues to push for a peace take care of Russia. Sir Keir, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will current a united entrance in help of Ukraine on the Number 10 assembly on Monday.

Russia’s assault continued over the weekend, with a barrage of 653 drones and 51 missiles concentrating on energy stations and a railway hub close to Kyiv within the early hours of Saturday morning. Kyiv and its western allies say Russia is making an attempt to cripple the Ukrainian energy grid and deny civilians entry to warmth, mild and working water for a fourth consecutive winter.

President Trump’s advisers, together with son-in-law Jared Kushner and US particular envoy Steve Witkoff, are holding talks with Ukrainian officers in Florida as they proceed work on a peace deal.

But European leaders have been shocked when the White House printed a 28-point peace plan which closely favoured Russia final month. It included calls for that Ukraine hand over the jap Donbas area, together with areas Russia’s miliary has did not seize, and conform to shrink the scale of its military.

The US-backed plan additionally dominated out the deployment of European peacekeepers and stated Kyiv should relinquish long-range weapons – with Mr Trump demanding that Ukraine settle for the proposal.

America has since toned down its rhetoric and in a joint assertion, the US and Ukraine agreed “that real progress toward any agreement depends on Russia’s readiness to show serious commitment to long-term peace, including steps toward de-escalation and cessation of killings”.

European leaders stay involved that President Trump is pushing Kyiv to agree a deal that can reward Russia for its aggression, after 4 years of battle.

It comes after the White House printed a National Security Strategy stressing plans to “negotiate an expeditious cessation of hostilities in Ukraine”.

The doc, described by Donald Trump as “a roadmap to ensure that America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history”, additionally included specific plans to intervene within the inner politics of European nations.

It stated US coverage included “cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations.”

The doc highlighted Europe’s dwindling share of the worldwide financial system, including: “This economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.

“The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.”