UK prime minister Keir Starmer will not visit Washington next week, it is understood, amid reports that European leaders are considering visiting Donald Trump to discuss his Ukraine peace plan, reports the PA news agency.<\/p>\n
France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron, Germany\u2019s Friedrich Merz and Italy\u2019s Giorgia Meloni are among the leaders who are considering a trip, Sky News reported citing European diplomatic sources. But it is understood the UK was not involved in such discussions.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n Ukrainians are struggling against the Russian assault on its power network, reports Luke Harding<\/a> in Chernihiv. Residents there have told him how they are without power for 14 hours a day as they gather in \u201cinvincibility points\u201d to charge up and warm up.<\/p>\n You can read his full report here:<\/p>\n Maksym Kuliev and Anna Kulieva, along with their 7-year-old daughter Yeseniia, live with LED lights and head torches. Photograph: Alessio Mamo\/The GuardianShare<\/a>Two people killed in Ukraine drone attack on energy facilities in Russia’s Samara region, governor says<\/p>\n A Ukrainian drone attack targeted energy facilities in Russia\u2019s Samara region, killing two people in the southern city of Syzran, the region\u2019s governor said on Saturday.<\/p>\n The attack was repelled by air defence forces, Vyacheslav Fedorishchev wrote on Russia\u2019s state-backed Max messenger app, reports Reuters.<\/p>\n Two more people were injured and were receiving medical care, the governor said.<\/p>\n Share<\/a> In case you missed Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s reaction to the call yesterday with western allies including France\u2019s president, Emmanuel Macron, Germany\u2019s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and the UK\u2019s Keir Starmer<\/a>, here is a post from my colleague Jakub Krupa<\/a>:<\/p>\n Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has posted<\/a> his reaction to the call too, thanking the leaders for their \u201cprincipled support for Ukraine and for all our people\u201d.<\/p>\n He says the leaders \u201cappreciate the efforts of the US, president Trump and his team aimed at ending this war,\u201d and are working on the US document.<\/p>\n \u201cThis must be a plan that ensures a real and dignified peace,\u201d he says, adding \u2013 again, pointedly \u2013 that the four leaders want to ensure that Ukraine\u2019s \u201cprincipled positions are taken into account.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe coordinated the next steps and agreed that our teams will work together at the corresponding levels,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Ukraine’s allies to meet at G20 summit to ‘strengthen’ US plan as Zelenskyy says his country faces impossible choice<\/p>\n UK prime minister Keir Starmer is expected to meet Ukraine\u2019s allies at the Johannesburg G20 summit on Saturday to seek to \u201cstrengthen\u201d a US-drafted plan to end the war with Russia.<\/p>\n It comes as Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday that Ukraine faces one of the most difficult moments in its history<\/a>, after Donald Trump demanded Kyiv accepts within days a US-backed \u201cpeace plan\u201d that would force it to give up territory to Russia and make other painful concessions.<\/p>\n Western allies including France\u2019s president, Emmanuel Macron, Germany\u2019s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and the UK\u2019s Keir Starmer<\/a> spoke to Zelenskyy on Friday in a show of solidarity. They reaffirmed their support for Kyiv and said any agreement to end the conflict had to be genuinely fair and take into account Ukraine\u2019s own red lines.<\/p>\n The US president is pursuing an \u201caggressive timeline\u201d to end the conflict, US officials indicated, and intends to heap unprecedented pressure on Kyiv. Trump confirmed on Friday morning that next Thursday \u2013 Thanksgiving in the US \u2013 would be an \u201cacceptable\u201d deadline for Zelenskyy to sign the deal, which European and Ukrainian officials have said amounts to a \u201ccapitulation\u201d.<\/p>\n Trump is also threatening to cut vital intelligence sharing and weapons supplies for Ukraine if it fails to agree, reports suggest.<\/p>\n We will bring you updates from the meeting at the G20 summit, plus other Ukraine-Russia news as it comes in.<\/p>\n Here are some other key developments:<\/p>\n Vladimir Putin says Ukraine is being unrealistic if it does not accept the US plan to end the war<\/a>, declaring: \u201cUkraine is against it. Apparently, Ukraine and its European allies are still under illusions and dream of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield\u201d. The positive response from the Russian president adds weight to the views of European and Ukrainian officials that the deal amounts to a \u201ccapitulation\u201d.<\/p>\n Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reacted to the deal by saying Ukraine faces one of the most difficult moments in its history. Agreeing to the US-Russian plan, which would force it to give up territory and make other painful concessions, could leave Ukraine \u201cwithout freedom, dignity and justice\u201d, Zelenskyy said in a sombre 10-minute speech<\/a> outside the presidential palace on Friday.<\/p>\n EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has warned that how the Ukraine war ends matters. She said: \u201cRussia\u2019s war against Ukraine is an existential threat to Europe. We all want this war to end. But how it ends matters. Russia has no legal right whatsoever to any concessions from the country it invaded. Ultimately, the terms of any agreement are for Ukraine to decide.\u201d<\/p>\n A Ukrainian drone attack targeted energy facilities in Russia\u2019s Samara region, killing two people in the southern city of Syzran, the region\u2019s governor said on Saturday. The attack was repelled by air defence forces, Vyacheslav Fedorishchev wrote on Russia\u2019s state-backed Max messenger app.<\/p>\n US officials and lawmakers are increasingly concerned about a meeting last month in which representatives of the Trump administration met Kirill Dmitriev, a Russian envoy who is under US. sanctions, to draft a plan to end the war in Ukraine, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. The meeting took place in Miami at the end of October and included special envoy Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Dmitriev, who leads the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), one of Russia\u2019s largest sovereign wealth funds.<\/p>\n![\"Jakub](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763806027_729_Jakub_Krupa.png\")
Jakub Krupa<\/p>\n