Writing for The Telegraph on Sunday, Sir Keir Starmer called for Britain and other Nato members to send troops to Ukraine to act as peacekeepers, following warnings from Donald Trump that Europe could no longer depend on the US for its national security.
The Russian demands come after talks between delegations from the US and Moscow in which the two sides pledged to restore staffing at their respective embassies, to create a high-level team to support Ukraine peace talks and to explore closer relations and economic cooperation.
This is, of course, unacceptable to us,” Sergei Lavrov said, following talks with the US in Saudi Arabia about ending the war in Ukraine.
With Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz politically weakened and other European allies left floundering after Donald Trump went over their heads to directly engage Vladimir Putin, Mr Macron has sought to “impose himself as Europe’s strongman”, French political analyst Jean-Yves Camus said.
Wang Yi told the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday that Beijing “supports all efforts conducive to peace talks” and would stick to the four foreign policy points outlined by Xi Jinping in April last year.
