British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the plan emerged after talks among the four countries’ leaders following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Oval Office blowout with U.S. President Donald Trump.

The war in Ukraine will be a focal point of the meeting between the US president and UK prime minister in Washington later.

Russian diplomats are meeting their U.S. counterparts in Istanbul for talks on normalizing diplomatic missions, three years after the Biden administration withdrew U.S. Embassy staff from Russia as Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine.

Meanwhile the US president says Europe should provide the security guarantees after any ceasefire deal with Russia.

President Donald Trump says talks to end Russia’s war in Ukraine are "making progress." Standing by Trump's side, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer applauds the push to end Russia’s invasion,

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets Donald Trump Thursday to plead for a US "backstop" to any Ukraine ceasefire, insisting it would be the only way to deter Russia's Vladimir

Trump made the comments at the start of a White House meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer where Starmer was expected to make his case to the Republican president that American leadership would be critical to maintain the peace in Ukraine should the three-year war end.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a minerals deal with Ukraine is the security guarantee Kyiv needs against Russia, brushing aside a plea from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for a commitment of U.

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Starmer will seek a "backstop" from the US in exchange for committing UK troops to serve alongside other European militaries as part of a peacekeeping force in Ukraine, the Times says. Trump has indicated there would be limited US support for any such arrangement.