THE Prime Minister will welcome President Zelensky, President Macron and Chancellor Merz to Downing Street on Monday.
Sir Keir Starmer will use this as an opportunity to show support for Mr Zelensky and Ukraine, and to discuss the ongoing peace talks with Russia.
Operationally, this will be in the afternoon and more details will be set out on Monday morning.
It follows US and Russian demands to give Moscow swathes of Ukrainian territory.
As Vladimir Putin continues to bomb Ukraine, top diplomats from Kyiv and Washington are holding crunch talks in hopes of achieving peace in the war-torn nation.
Delegates from both sides are due to meet in Miami today for a third straight day of talks.
Washington said the two sides agreed that “real progress” would depend on Russia‘s willingness to end the war.
President Donald Trump‘s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner have been meeting top Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov and Andrii Hnatov, the chief of staff of Kyiv‘s armed forces.
President Zelensky said he expected that the results of previous meetings with the US in Geneva, which took place two weeks ago, would now be “hammered out”.
Kyiv is facing significant pressure from Washington to agree to the terms of a peace deal – all while Zelensky finds himself in the most difficult political and military situation.
The Geneva meetings allowed Ukraine to present a counteroffer to proposals laid out in Trump’s initial 28-point peace plan.
The initial proposal heavily favoured Russia, prompting Zelensky to quickly engage with American negotiators.
Kyiv said it was seeking changes to the draft that was criticised for being in Moscow‘s favour for accepting a range of Russia‘s hardline demands.
The original Kremlin-backed plan ceded Crimea and the Donbas region to Moscow, as well as parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia – with the US officially recognising them as part of the Russian territory.
While a revised 19-point plan scraps any limits on the size of Ukraine’s army, it does not address control of territory or whether Ukraine can join Nato – two of the biggest red lines for both sides.
Zelensky has said Ukraine is in one of the most difficult moments in its history, but promised his people in a dramatic address last week that he would not betray the country.
But reports suggest that the plan to recognise territory taken by Moscow through force is likely to go ahead despite concern from Ukraine‘s allies in Europe.
The talks come after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin at the Kremlin on Tuesday to discuss a US plan to end the conflict, but Moscow rejected parts of the proposal.
Putin also vowed to seize the Donbass region by force if no peace deal was found, just days after also threatening he was “ready” to fight Europe.
