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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has promised to work with Ukraine and its allies to offer Kyiv robust security guarantees if a ceasefire is negotiated with Russia in a display of support days before United States President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Starmer met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Thursday and offered more support with a \u201c100-year partnership\u201d agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On his first visit to Ukraine since becoming prime minister in July, Starmer hailed a \u201ccloser than ever\u201d relationship between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump, who will take office on Monday, has frequently promised to end the nearly three-year war in Ukraine. He has floated proposals that include ceding large parts of Ukraine to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For his part, Starmer said any deal to end the fighting must \u201cguarantee\u201d Ukraine\u2019s security and independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zelenskyy recently urged Western nations \u201cnot to drop the ball\u201d and to maintain long-term military support to Ukraine. He hailed Thursday\u2019s deal as \u201ctruly historic\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Britain has been one of Ukraine\u2019s biggest military backers, pledging 12.8 billion pounds ($16bn) in military and civilian aid since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BBC: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has promised to work with Ukraine and its allies to offer Kyiv robust security guarantees if a ceasefire is negotiated with Russia in a display of support days before United States President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House. Starmer met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Thursday and offered more support with a \u201c100-year partnership\u201d agreement. On his first visit to Ukraine since becoming prime minister in July, Starmer hailed a \u201ccloser than ever\u201d relationship between the two countries. Trump, who will take office on Monday, has frequently promised to end the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44493,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44491\/revisions\/44493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}