{"id":130026,"date":"2025-03-15T11:07:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T11:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/russia-ukraine-war-live-uk-says-putin-will-come-to-table-sooner-or-later-as-world-leaders-discuss-peace-plans-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T11:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T11:07:49","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-live-uk-says-putin-will-come-to-table-sooner-or-later-as-world-leaders-discuss-peace-plans-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/russia-ukraine-war-live-uk-says-putin-will-come-to-table-sooner-or-later-as-world-leaders-discuss-peace-plans-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine war live: UK says Putin will come to table \u2018sooner or later\u2019 as world leaders discuss peace plans – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

British PM set to call on 25 world leaders to boost Kyiv in lead-up to any peace deal or be ready to ramp up pressure on Russia
Keir Starmer<\/strong> has said Vladimir Putin<\/strong> will \u201csooner or later\u201d have to \u201ccome to the table\u201d as he urged world leaders to keep up the pressure on Russia<\/strong> for an unconditional ceasefire, reports PA news agency.
Akif \u00c7a\u011fatay K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7<\/strong>, a foreign policy adviser to Turkey<\/strong>\u2019s president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan<\/strong>, has said that one of the main obstacles to a peace settlement between Ukraine<\/strong> and Russia<\/strong> is a \u201closs of trust\u201d between the two sides.
Turkey has played a key role as a mediator in talks and maintains good relations with both Kyiv<\/strong> and Moscow<\/strong>, despite its military support for Ukraine. It hosted negotiations in 2022 and has offered to do so again if called on.
Speaking to a Turkish TV station, K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7 said:
<\/path><\/svg>The main problem is a loss of trust. Nobody trusts anyone.\u201d
He referred cryptically to a group of politicians, no longer in power, who he claimed scuppered the initial February 2022 talks in Istanbul<\/strong>, noting that the conditions under which Ukraine is able to negotiate now have changed.
K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7 said that in 2022 negotiations were aiming to limit Ukraine\u2019s territorial losses to Russia<\/a> at about 3% but that figure now is at about 25%.
UK<\/strong> prime minister Keir Starmer<\/strong>, French<\/strong> president Emmanuel Macron<\/strong>, Ukrainian<\/strong> president Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/strong> and Nato<\/strong> secretary general Mark Rutte<\/strong> have addressed the virtual \u201ccoalition of the willing\u201d meeting, a government source told the PA news agency.
Starmer condemned Russia<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cbarbaric attacks on Ukraine\u201d, saying Vladimir Putin<\/strong> must \u201cagree to a ceasefire\u201d.
He said at the top of the meeting:
<\/path><\/svg>President Zelenskyy, who\u2019s with us this morning, has shown once again that Ukraine is the party of peace, because he has agreed to and committed to a 30-day unconditional ceasefire.
Now what we see, and this is centrepiece for our discussions today, is that Putin is the one trying to delay.
In a sense, and you will know this, if Putin is serious about peace, it\u2019s very simple, he has to stop his barbaric attacks on Ukraine and agree to a ceasefire.\u201d
Starmer continued:
<\/path><\/svg>Secondly, being prepared to defend any deal ourselves through a coalition of the willing. We\u2019ve begun that process and this morning we can take it forward.
And then, thirdly, and really importantly, given the developments of the last few days, to keep the pressure on Putin to come to the table, and I think collectively we\u2019ve got a number of ways that we can do that.
So it\u2019s those three heads, really, that we\u2019re going to focus on in this meeting, strengthening Ukraine, being prepared to defend any deal ourselves through a coalition of the willing, and keeping that pressure on Russia at this crucial time.\u201d
Speaking in Downing Street<\/strong> before the video call, UK<\/strong> prime minister Keir Starmer<\/strong> said the \u201cworld is watching\u201d.
According to the PA news agency, Starmer said:
<\/path><\/svg>My feeling is that sooner or later (Putin\u2019s) going to have to come to the table and engage in serious discussion, but \u2013 and this is a big but for us this morning in our meeting \u2013 we can\u2019t sit back and simply wait for that to happen.
We have to keep pushing ahead, pushing forward, and preparing for peace, and a peace that will be secure and that will last.
I think that means strengthening Ukraine so they can defend themselves, and strengthening, obviously, in terms of military capability, in terms of funding, in terms of the provision of further support from all of us to Ukraine.\u201d
UK<\/strong> prime minister Keir Starmer<\/strong> told a virtual meeting of about 25 world leaders on Saturday that they had to be prepared to defend any Ukraine<\/strong> peace deal themselves, urging them to keep up pressure on Russia<\/strong>.
\u201cIf (Russian President Vladimir) Putin is serious about peace, it\u2019s very simple, he has to stop his barbaric attacks on Ukraine<\/a> and agree to a ceasefire,\u201d Starmer told the video call of leaders from nations, including from Europe<\/strong>, Australia<\/strong>, Canada<\/strong> and New Zealand<\/strong>.
He added:
<\/path><\/svg>We have to keep pushing ahead, pushing forward, and preparing for peace and a peace that will be secure and that will last.\u201d
Keir Starmer<\/strong> has said Vladimir Putin<\/strong> will \u201csooner or later\u201d have to \u201ccome to the table\u201d as he urged world leaders to keep up the pressure on Russia<\/strong> for an unconditional ceasefire, reports PA news agency.
While we wait for news from Keir Starmer\u2019s virtual summit, my colleague David Smith in Washington has this piece on how Trump has transformed the US Republican party\u2019s stance on Vladimir Putin\u2026<\/strong><\/em>
In speech that ran for 100 minutes there was one moment when Donald Trump drew more applause from Democrats than Republicans. As the president told Congress last week how the US had sent billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine, his political opponents clapped<\/a> and unfurled a Ukrainian flag \u2013 while his own party sat in stony silence.
It was a telling insight into Republicans\u2019 transformation<\/a>, in the space of a generation, from a party of cold war hawks to one of \u201cAmerica first\u201d isolationists. Where Trump has led, many Republicans have obediently followed, all the way into the embrace of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin \u2013 with huge implications for the global democratic order.
Read the full piece here:
Ukraine<\/strong> said on Saturday it had downed 130 Russian<\/strong>-launched drones across the country at night, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Kyiv<\/strong>\u2019s air force said the Iranian<\/strong>-made Shahed drones were downed over 14 regions and that Moscow<\/strong> had also attacked with two ballistic missiles.
Kyiv also said that the number of wounded in a Russian strike a day earlier on president Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/strong>\u2019s home town Kryvy Rig<\/strong> rose to 14. On Friday, officials said Russia attacked a residential area of the central Ukrainian city \u2013 regularly targeted throughout Moscow\u2019s more than three-year invasion.
\u201cFourteen people were wounded, among them two children,\u201d the head of the Dnipropetrovsk region<\/strong>, Sergiy Lysak<\/strong>, said on Telegram.
Ukrainian prosecutors said the injured children were a two-year-old and a 15-year-old.
Lysak said the missile attack destroyed more than a dozen large apartment buildings and 10 private houses.
Russian<\/strong> troops have recaptured the villages of Rubanshchina<\/strong> and Zaoleshenka<\/strong> in its western Kursk<\/strong> region, the defence ministry<\/strong> said on Saturday.
The Guardian has been unable to independently verify the report.
Ukraine<\/strong>\u2019s largest private energy provider said on Saturday that overnight Russian airstrikes had damaged its energy facilities in the Dnipropetrovsk<\/strong> and Odesa<\/strong> regions.
In a statement, DTEK<\/strong> said \u201cdamages are significant\u201d and that some consumers in both regions were left without power, reports Reuters.<\/p>\n

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