“And the US, the UK, Europe will need to work very closely together to ensure that we can make sure we can get that lasting peace for Ukraine, that it would have the security guarantees that we need.
Former prime minister Boris Johnson said there is “good stuff” in the latest draft of the deal and said the US would only benefit from it when there is a “free, sovereign and secure Ukraine”.
He told Fox News: “We worked very hard together with the UK prime minister to have a French-UK proposal to say we are ready to send troops, not to go to the front line, not to go in confrontation, but to be in some locations, being defined by the treaty, as a presence to maintain this peace and our collective credibility with the US backup and the US backstop.”.
The transatlantic alliance has been put under severe strain by Donald Trump’s approach to ending the war, with the US president opening talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, branding Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator” and suggesting Kyiv’s forces were to blame for the conflict.
The United States will have to work closely with the UK and Europe to deliver a lasting peace in Ukraine, a Cabinet minister said ahead of Sir Keir Starmer’s trip to Washington.
