Zelenskyy, Starmer, Macron and Merz are all inside Downing Street for their meeting.<\/p>\n
What will the leaders be discussing?<\/p>\n
Diplomatic efforts are centred around the US-proposed peace plan and potential sticking points.<\/p>\n
One long-standing issue, security guarantees, seems to be high on today’s agenda, according to the leaders.<\/p>\n
‘Security must be guaranteed’<\/p>\n
After landing in the UK, Zelenskyy hinted at the importance of these guarantees, saying on Telegram:\u00a0<\/p>\n
“In the UK. Meetings and coordination talks are planned with our European partners. We are joining our efforts to end this war with a decent peace for Ukraine. Security must be guaranteed.”<\/p>\n
Sir Keir Starmer has also said the leaders will discuss security guarantees: “The four of us will have the opportunity to go through the various issues [of the peace plan], to do it privately, and to make progress.<\/p>\n
He added: “It is important that we bear in mind that this conflict is nearly four years old, that Russia is the aggressor, and therefore, if there is to be a ceasefire, it needs to be just – because Ukraine has taken heavy, heavy losses and paid a very heavy price for a war which was not of their making – but it’s also got to be lasting, because we know Putin does not respect agreements that don’t have hard-edged security guarantees behind them, so that’s what we’ll be focusing on.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy, Starmer, Macron and Merz are all inside Downing Street for their meeting. What will the leaders be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-337810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}