Starmer to host Zelensky and EU leaders for peace talks after Russia launches in a single day air assaults on Kyiv | EUROtoday

Sir Keir Starmer will meet with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday alongside different EU leaders as Ukraine considers subsequent steps after US peace talks.

Mr Zelensky will meet Sir Keir in Downing Street together with French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Friedrich Merz.

The assembly comes amid continued talks between Ukrainian and US officers on a Washington-backed plan to finish the battle. Ukraine’s negotiators have been in Florida for 3 days final week for talks with Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner.

On Sunday, cupboard minister Pat McFadden stated that Ukraine’s safety and self-determination could be “at the heart” of the leaders’ discussions in London. He stated that talks have been at a “really pivotal moment”.

Meanwhile, Mr Trump’s particular envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, who is because of step down in January, instructed a defence discussion board {that a} deal to finish the Ukraine battle was “really close” and that it now trusted resolving simply two predominant excellent points.

These are the way forward for Ukraine’s Donbas area and the Zaporzhzhia nuclear energy plant. He instructed Reagan National Defence Forum: “If we get those two issues settled, I think the rest of the things will work out fairly well. We’re almost there.”

However, president Vladimir Putin’s high international coverage aide Yuri Ushakov was quoted by Russian media as saying the US must make “radical changes to their papers” on Ukraine. He didn’t make clear what modifications Moscow wished Washington to make.

Despite progress being made on peace talks, Russia continued to bombard Ukraine with drone assaults in a single day into Sunday.

Missile and drone assaults killed at the least three individuals in Ukraine, in response to regional police. A person was killed in a drone assault on Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv area on Saturday night time, whereas a mixed missile and drone assault on infrastructure within the central metropolis of Kremenchuk brought on energy and water outages.

Kremenchuk is residence to one among Ukraine’s greatest oil refineries and is an industrial hub.

Two individuals have been additionally killed and 7 others injured in shelling by Russian troops in Ukraine’s Kharkiv area, in response to the regional police.

Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov welcomed the Trump administration’s new nationwide safety technique.

In feedback revealed on Sunday by Russian state information company RIA Novosti, he stated the technique was “encouraging”.

“There are statements there against confrontation and in favour of dialogue and building good relations,” he added.

The doc launched on Friday by the White House makes clear that the US desires to enhance its relationship with Russia after years of Moscow being handled as a world pariah, and that ending the battle is a core US curiosity to “re-establish strategic stability with Russia”.