US EditionStarmer Arrives in Johannesburg to Announce £400 Million UK Trade Deals at G20
Starmer secured £400 million in trade deals for trains, planes, and submarines, highlighting 200,000 UK jobs created from G20 countries in the past three years, officials said.
- On Friday in Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky signalled readiness for `constructive` and `honest` work with Washington on a draft plan and confirmed US and Ukrainian negotiating teams will develop its elements.
- After confidential talks involving Rustem Umerov, Zelensky's adviser, Umerov `agreed to the majority of the plan`, while US officials reportedly worked quietly on the proposal, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
- According to the leaked 28-point document, the draft would include US recognition of Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk as de facto Russian territory and limit Ukraine's army to 600,000 troops with robust security guarantees.
- In Brussels, EU foreign ministers avoided direct comment but signalled resistance to any deal forcing Ukraine into one-sided concessions, emphasising `But peace cannot be a capitulation.`
- Ukrainian forces are under pressure on multiple fronts and Zelensky's government was shaken by a corruption scandal that led to the dismissal of two cabinet ministers last week; the plan would reintegrate Russia with sanctions lifted `in phases and on a case-by-case basis`.
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Federal Chancellor Merz discussed with French President Macron, British Prime Minister Starmer and Ukrainian President Selenskyi the US draft for an end to the war in Ukraine. A telephone conference had been called in the short term.
President Volodymyr Zelensky held a telephone conversation with US Vice President Jay Dee Vance as part of consultations on possible negotiations to end the war.
The head of state called on Ukrainians to “come together, to come to their senses, to stop political squabbling and political games.”
A supposed US peace plan with large concessions to Russia puts pressure on Kyiv. Now the Chancellor, the British Prime Minister and France's President have exchanged views with the Ukrainian leader.
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