Sir Keir Starmer will join EU and Nato leaders to bolster Volodymyr Zelensky in his crunch White House meeting with Donald Trump on Monday.
They will present a united front in the hope of moderating Mr Trump’s treatment of the Ukrainian leader, whom he humiliated at the Oval Office in February.
European ministers fear that Mr Zelensky is walking into a trap laid by Vladimir Putin.
The Ukrainian leader said on Sunday that the ‘coalition of the willing’ – the UK and other nations that have pledged to support Kyiv – held a ‘useful’ two-hour video conference on Sunday.
He revealed that they had a ‘common view on what a peace agreement should be’ and insisted it did not include changing state borders by force.
