Sir Keir Starmer and European allies have agreed on the need to ramp up economic pressure on Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and have discussed “positive progress” towards using frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine, Downing Street says.
The prime minister hosted Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Friedrich Merz at No 10 following US president Donald Trump’s “peace plan”, widely criticised as being a wish-list of Russian demands.