{"id":160121,"date":"2025-08-10T06:12:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T06:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/lammy-and-vance-hold-meeting-to-discuss-us-brokered-ukraine-peace-plan-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T06:12:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T06:12:59","slug":"lammy-and-vance-hold-meeting-to-discuss-us-brokered-ukraine-peace-plan-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/lammy-and-vance-hold-meeting-to-discuss-us-brokered-ukraine-peace-plan-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Lammy and Vance hold meeting to discuss US-brokered Ukraine peace plan – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian and European partners to join UK foreign secretary and US vice-president at Chevening for talks
The UK foreign secretary, David Lammy<\/a>, and the US vice-president, JD Vance, held a meeting with Ukrainian and European partners in Britain on Saturday to discuss the drive for peace in Ukraine.
The summit comes before a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin set for next Friday in Alaska. In a comment that that was met with pushback from Kyiv, the US president said that an end to the war must involve \u201csome swapping of territories\u201d<\/a>. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stressed early on Saturday that \u201cUkrainians will not give their land to occupiers\u201d.
Trump has agreed to meet the Russian president even if he refuses to meet Zelenskyy, adding to fears Ukraine<\/a> could be sidelined in negotiations.
A White House official said later on Saturday that Trump was open to holding a trilateral summit in Alaska with Putin and Zelenskyy, but that it was planning a bilateral meeting with Putin at the Russian\u2019s president\u2019s request.
In a Telegram post on Saturday in which he emphasised Kyiv must be represented for any peace deal to be viable, Zelenskyy wrote: \u201cAny decisions that are without Ukraine are at the same time decisions against peace. They will not bring anything. These are dead decisions. They will never work.\u201d
The meeting between Lammy and Vance took place at Chevening in Kent. The Guardian understands it was held at the request of the US.
On Saturday evening, Lammy posted on X that he had held a meeting with Vance, Andriy Yermak, the head of the office of the Ukrainian president, Rustem Umerov, Ukraine\u2019s defence minister, and European national security advisers.
\u201cThe UK\u2019s support for Ukraine remains ironclad as we continue working towards a just and lasting peace,\u201d he said.
Zelenskyy said on Saturday evening that the meeting of security advisers from Ukraine and its partner countries had been constructive, adding that Kyiv\u2019s arguments were heard and dangers were taken into account.
Zelenskyy said officials from Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Finland and Poland took part in the meeting, aiming to consolidate positions to achieve a ceasefire.
\u201cThe path to peace for Ukraine should be determined together and only together with Ukraine, this is key principle,\u201d he said in his evening address.
On Saturday evening the leaders of the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Poland and Finland, and the president of the EU Commission, released a joint statement declaring that the path to peace could not be decided without Ukraine.
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\u201cWe welcome President Trump\u2019s work to stop the killing in Ukraine, end the Russian Federation\u2019s war of aggression, and achieve just and lasting peace and security for Ukraine,\u201d they said.
\u201cWe are convinced that only an approach that combines active diplomacy, support to Ukraine and pressure on the Russian Federation to end their illegal war can succeed.
\u201cWe stand ready to support this work diplomatically as well as by upholding our substantive military and financial support to Ukraine.\u201d
On Saturday morning Starmer and Zelenskyy had talked by phone. A No 10 spokesperson said: \u201cBoth leaders welcomed president Trump\u2019s desire to bring this barbaric war to an end and agreed that we must keep up the pressure on Putin to end his illegal war.\u201d The statement added that Starmer had reiterated \u201chis unwavering support for Ukraine and its people\u201d during the call.
Zelenskyy communicated with Trump and European leaders in recent days as news broke that the US leader and Putin were planning to meet. On Friday Poland\u2019s prime minister, Donald Tusk, said there could be a \u201cfreeze\u201d<\/a> in the conflict.
If the summit goes ahead between Trump and Putin, it will be the first time a US president has met the Russian leader since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The last meeting Putin had with a US president was with Joe Biden in Geneva in June 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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