UK prime minister accuses Putin of trying to delay peace and calls for ‘guns to fall silent’
• Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updates
Keir Starmer has called for the “guns to fall silent in Ukraine” and said military powers will meet next week as plans to secure a peace deal move to an “operational phase”.
The UK prime minister said Vladimir Putin’s “yes, but” approach to a proposed ceasefire was not good enough, and the Russian president would have to negotiate “sooner or later”.
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