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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Clea Skopeliti and Nadeem Badshah

Path to peace cannot be decided without Ukraine, says Europe

JD Vance and David Lammy at Chevening House
JD Vance (right) and David Lammy at Chevening House in Kent on Friday. The US vice-president is holidaying in the UK this summer. Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP

The UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, and the US vice-president, JD Vance, held a meeting with Ukrainian and European partners in Britain on Saturday to discuss the drive for peace in Ukraine.

The summit comes before a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin set for next Friday in Alaska. In a comment that that was met with pushback from Kyiv, the US president said that an end to the war must involve “some swapping of territories”. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stressed early on Saturday that “Ukrainians will not give their land to occupiers”.

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