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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor

Can Europe secure peace in Ukraine without the US?

European leaders gathered in front of a row of flags
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, among other European leaders in London for talks. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

Britain and France are trying, with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to develop a peace plan to end the fighting in his country, in the aftermath of his disastrous White House summit with Donald Trump.

However, the initiative announced by Keir Starmer on Sunday raises questions about whether peace is possible, and on what terms, in the face of continuing Russian hostility and uncertain US intentions.

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