Keir Starmer to head to White House for high-stakes talks with Trump and Zelensky

Mandatory Credit: Photo by via Ukrainian Presidential Press Office/UPI/Shutterstock (15441818c) Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at number 10 Downing Street in London, United Kingdom on Thursday on August 14, 2025. Zelenskyy's visit to the UK follows his trip to Berlin, where he participated in virtual meetings with European leaders and U.S. President Trump to coordinate strategy ahead of Friday's talks in Alaska between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. British Prime Minister Starmer meets with Ukrainian President Zelensky in London, England - 14 Aug 2025
Keir Starmer greets Volodymyr Zelensky at Downing Street (Picture: Ukrainian Presidential Press Office/UPI/Shutterstock)

Sir Keir Starmer will join Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington for talks with Donald Trump tomorrow.

The US president announced yesterday that he will meet with the Ukrainian leader tomorrow to discuss an agreement ‘which would end the war’ between Russia and Ukraine. 

Trump has since extended the guest list to various European leaders – and Sir Keir is one of them.

Confirming his attendance today, Downing Street said the Prime Minister ‘will reaffirm that his backing for Ukraine will continue for as long as it takes’.

France’s president Emmanuel Macron, Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni and Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz will be attending.

It comes after the US president met with Vladimir Putin for a high-risk meeting in Alaska on Friday – one that Kyiv was not invited to.

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump (R) greets Russian President Vladimir Putin on the tarmac after they arrived at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. Putin is in Alaska at the invitation of Trump in his first visit to a Western country since he ordered the 2022 invasion of Ukraine that has killed tens of thousands of people. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
Donald Trump (R) met with Vladimir Putin on Friday, all but thawing the Russian president’s political isolation (Picture: AFP)

After literally giving the Russian president the red carpet treatment, Trump split from European allies by backing Putin’s Ukraine peace agreement.

The Kremlin’s plan to end its grinding, three-year-long war in Ukraine would see the country be cut apart, with some land given to Russia.

Trump believes that a peace deal would be hashed out quickly if Zelensky agrees to the rest of the Donbas region to Russia – Russia already controls 88% of the region in eastern Ukraine.

He wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, that he, Kyiv and Europe agree that a peace deal to end the war, rather than a ceasefire, is the only option.

‘If all works out, we will then schedule a meeting with President Putin. Potentially, millions of people’s lives will be saved. Thank you for your attention to this matter!’ he added.

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