Setting out his call for US commitments to Ukraine after a peace deal, Sir Keir said: “The reason I say the backstop is so important is that the security guarantee has to be sufficient to deter Putin from coming again.”.
While Sir Keir was flying to Washington, the US president said: “I’m not going to make security guarantees beyond very much.
Sir Keir Starmer has arrived in Washington for crunch talks with US President Donald Trump.
On Friday, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky will meet Trump in Washington where they are expected to announce an agreement on Ukraine’s minerals.
The PM will use Thursday’s meeting to push Trump to guarantee a US backstop for Ukraine to deter Vladimir Putin from further aggression.
