{"id":628461,"date":"2026-06-09T01:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628461\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T01:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:45:19","slug":"zelensky-meets-king-charles-during-uk-visit-focused-on-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628461\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky meets King Charles during UK visit focused on peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr Zelensky met with King Charles III at Windsor Castle on June 8 during his visit to the U.K., as Kyiv works with European allies to revive efforts to end Russia&#8217;s war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting came a day after Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/zelensky-arrives-in-london-for-bilateral-e3-talks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">traveled<\/a> to London for talks with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and E3-format discussions involving the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany on the future of peace negotiations with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Charles has remained one of Ukraine&#8217;s most prominent supporters among Western heads of state since the start of Russia&#8217;s full-scale <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/war\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">invasion<\/a>. The king has also raised Ukraine in conversations with U.S. President Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<p>Following the meeting, <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/volodymyr-zelensky\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zelensky<\/a> thanked the monarch and the British people for their backing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As always, a good audience with His Majesty King Charles III&#8230; I thank His Majesty, the people, and the entire United Kingdom for their ironclad support for our people,&#8221; Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/V_Zelenskiy_official\/19417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The U.K. remains one of Kyiv&#8217;s closest allies and a leading member of the Coalition of the Willing, a group of more than 30 countries seeking to provide Ukraine with long-term <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/security-guarantees\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">security guarantees<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Volodymyr Zelensky met with King Charles III at Windsor Castle on June 8 during his visit to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-628461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}