The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, again summons 25 heads of government on Saturday to analyze the situation in Ukraine and check how many of them are willing to collaborate in the “coalition of volunteers” that promote the United Kingdom and France. This time it will be in videoconference format, around 10 in the morning (11, in Spanish peninsular schedule). Together with the European countries that have already come to London two weeks ago the leaders of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as well as the secretary general of NATO, Mark Rutte, and the president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski.
Starmer, as Downing Street has advanced, will transmit to the summoned the need to increase with all forces the economic pressure on Russia to force Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table. That should be the short -term objective, the prime minister will ensure, together with the requirement that all countries be prepared as soon as possible to support a fair and lasting peace in long -term Ukraine, in addition to increasing military aid to kyiv so that he can continue to defend himself from Russian attacks.
“We cannot allow President Putin to continue playing with the agreement reached by President Trump [con Ucrania]. The absolute contempt of Kremlin for the proposal of Alto El Fuego of President Trump only serves to demonstrate that Putin does not take peace seriously, ”Starmer intends to say the rest of political leaders, as the British government has advanced.
The prime minister will ask the countries summoned to the videoconference that are all prepared to control that the high fire, to be carried out, give way to a safe and lasting peace.
Volunteer coalition
The videoconference of this Saturday occurs after an intense diplomatic week focused on the Ukraine crisis, in which there was a meeting of EU and NATO Chiefs of General Staff in Paris; A meeting also in the French capital of the United Kingdom Defense Ministers, Italy, Germany, Poland and France and a meeting of Foreign Ministers of the G-7 in Canada.
In addition to taking stock of all these efforts and analyzing the current situation of the conflict, the British government wants to know first hand the degree of contributions that the different countries are willing to make to the so -called “coalition of volunteers”, the effort promoted by the United Kingdom and France to provide European security guarantees to a possible peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia. The two countries have already expressed their commitment to send troops to Ukrainian territory, to form a peace force, but for now they have faced the doubts and reluctance of other governments, such as German, Polish or Spanish, which consider that this decision is still very precipitated in the midst of a situation that remains plagued by uncertainties.
