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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Peter Mandelson’s Ukraine comments ‘not government policy’, minister says

Mandelson at a lectern at the ambassador's residence in Washington, with the US flag behind
Peter Mandelson said ‘Ukraine should be the first to commit to a ceasefire and defy the Russians to follow’. Photograph: Carl Court/PA

Peter Mandelson has been rebuffed for saying Volodymyr Zelenskyy should be more supportive of US peace efforts and that Ukraine should unilaterally call a ceasefire, with a UK defence minister saying this was “not government policy”.

The overnight comments by Lord Mandelson, the UK ambassador to Washington, were also criticised by opposition parties, with the Liberal Democrats saying Mandelson should not be “telling President Zelenskyy what to do”.

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