Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Downing Street on Thursday (August 14, 2025) morning, a day before the Presidents of Russia and the U.S. are to meet in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss a ceasefire to the Russia-Ukraine war.
A Downing Street readout of the Zelenskyy- Starmer meeting said the two men looked at Friday’s meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “ viable chance to make progress as long as Putin takes action to prove he is serious about peace”.
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“We also discussed in considerable detail the security guarantees that can make peace truly durable if the United States succeeds in pressing Russia to stop the killings and engage in genuine, substantive diplomacy,” Mr. Zelenskyy said on X, after the meeting of the so called Coalition of the Willing, a group of mostly European countries that would provide a “reassurance force” in Ukraine, to help maintain peace, following any ceasefire between Kyiv and Moscow.
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