Sir Keir Starmer is to meet with the US President Donald Trump to discuss Russia’s war in Ukraine and is proposing a European defence force on the ground to keep the peace.
Russia is accusing Starmer of trying to “derail Trump’s peace initiatives” and the UK will continue to undermine the talks between Washington and Moscow.
The former Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov told Izvestia in an interview, “Kier Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, and German chancellor-elect Friedrich Merz now represent an anti-Trump bloc. Its task is to derail Trump’s peace initiatives.”
Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large in charge of overseeing Kyiv’s alleged crimes said, “Britain is unique in that it does many things under the radar rather than overtly. And it holds major leverage on Ukraine’s special services and military units that it has been using so that the Moscow-Washington dialogue should not happen.
“London always feels much more comfortable where there is a divide between Russia and the United States.”
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Tass reported that Tigran Meloyan, an analyst at the HSE Center for Mediterranean Studies believes the UK will challenge Trump’s efforts to settle the conflict by increasing assistance to Kyiv so that hostilities will continue.
Also the UK will undermine the settlement process by sending European troops to Ukraine which Moscow strongly opposes and this could stop all peace negotiations, even though Trump is so far backing peacekeepers in Ukraine.
Meloyan said, “It’s worth noting though that this initiative was put forward by Great Britain, not an EU-member state, and France but was never supported by the others in the EU.”
Starmer was asked if Putin will agree to European peacekeepers, he said, “I’m not answering to Putin.
“I’m considering how we preserve peace in Europe and how we get a lasting peace in Ukraine.
“And I’m absolutely convinced that we need a lasting peace, not a ceasefire, and for that to happen we need security guarantees.
“Precisely what that layers up, to what that looks like, is obviously a subject of intense discussion.
“We will play our part and I’ve been clear that we will need a US backstop of some sort.”
The Prime Minister was asked if he will rule out deploying British troops as part of a peacekeeping force, he replied, he was “not going to get ahead of myself.”
He said, “We’re in a really important moment, we’re three years into the conflict, there are some talks going on now. We all want a peaceful outcome.
“It’s got to be a lasting peace, and that requires us to put in place an effective security guarantee. Exactly what the configuration of that is, exactly what the backstop is, is obviously the subject of intense discussion.”
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