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Sunday, March 02, 2025

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced a four-point plan to work with Ukraine to end the war and to defend it from Russia.

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BREAKING: British PM Keir Starmer announces billions in support for Ukraine following a summit with European leaders, just days after President Trump berated Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office.

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-- NBC News (@nbcnews.com) March 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM

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Speaking at a news conference after the summit, Starmer said four points had been agreed:

to keep military aid flowing into Ukraine, and to keep increasing the economic pressure on Russia
that any lasting peace must ensure Ukraine's sovereignty and security and Ukraine must be present at any peace talks in the event of a peace deal,

to boost Ukraine's defensive capabilities to deter any future invasion to develop a "coalition of the willing" to defend a deal in Ukraine and to guarantee peace afterwards

Sir Keir also announced an additional 1.6bn ($2bn) of UK export finance to buy more than 5,000 air defence missiles. This comes on top of a 2.2bn loan to provide more military aid to Ukraine backed by profits from frozen Russian assets.

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"We have to learn from the mistakes of the past, we cannot accept a weak deal... which Russia can breach with ease, instead any deal must be backed by strength," he said.

The prime minister did not state which countries had agreed to join this coalition of the willing, but said that those who had committed would intensify planning now, with real urgency.

The UK, he said, would back its commitment with "boots on the ground, and planes in the air".

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Turkey has already said previously that they want their Troops to be first on the ground as Peacekeepers in Ukraine.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-02 04:07 PM | Reply

Tangentially related ...

Zelensky Meets King Charles as Calls Grow to Cancel Trump UK State Visit
www.newsweek.com

... President Volodymyr Zelensky met King Charles in London Sunday, following the heated spat between the Ukrainian leader and U.S. President Donald Trump Friday, as pressure grew on U.K. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to withdraw his royal visit invitation to Trump. ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-02 04:21 PM | Reply

The prime minister did not state which countries had agreed to join this coalition of the willing

We'll send our plane and both tanks.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-03-02 04:27 PM | Reply

Vlad is upset that his campaign to disrupt Britain and France hasn't werked as well as his campaign in the US that helped him get very own twice elected President.

His ownership of Trump is his hole card, and he's planning on winning with it.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-02 04:46 PM | Reply

This is funny because they want to take the four-point plan to work with Ukraine to end the war back to Trump to get his approval.

Why not take it to Putin?

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-02 08:27 PM | Reply


We'll send our plane and both tanks.
#3 | POSTED BY REDIAL

Does Canada even have a Navy?

#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-02 08:27 PM | Reply

Why not take it to Putin?

It's the same thing.

#7 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-03-02 08:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#7

Trump might not get a pat on the head and his doggie bone from Vlad if Zelenskyy goes directly to Putin.

Besides, I doubt he wants to be in the same room as the child murderer Vlad... or his doggy Donald, either, really.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-02 09:16 PM | Reply

Does Canada even have a Navy?

#6 | Posted by oneironaut

What a sorry ignoramous.

I sometimes forget how ignorant a person has to be to have your worldview.

In your snark I hear a wailing despair that Ukraine isn't finished yet.

--.

#9 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-03 09:06 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

The UK, he said, would back its commitment with "boots on the ground, and planes in the air".

only if US backs him up...

#10 | Posted by itchypossum at 2025-03-03 02:06 PM | Reply

Apparently America is not willing to guarantee peace for anyone anymore.

Apparently.

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-03 02:09 PM | Reply

Apparently.

The whole MAD concept is certainly out the window now that Putin controls both major nuclear arsenals.

#12 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-03-03 02:19 PM | Reply

Our federal government can no longer even guarantee peace in America.

So I guess it makes sense to not try and guarantee peace elsewhere in the world at this time.

#13 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-03 02:23 PM | Reply

guarantee war then.
There are still Amalek alive in EU, offending G-d by their presence, get them to the front ASAgdmfP.

#14 | Posted by itchypossum at 2025-03-03 10:38 PM | Reply

Canada has never lost a war... other than the one they fought alongside the USA in Afghanistan... the one ally that stayed with us the longest. They have veterans from that war same as we do.

They fought in WW2 two years longer than we did.

The world likes Canada ... the US not so much.

Florida needs Canadians

#15 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-03-04 02:10 PM | Reply

Florida needs Canadians

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So much winning!

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-04 02:17 PM | Reply

Does Canada even have a Navy?

#6 | Posted by oneignorant at 2025-03-02 08:27 PM | Reply | Flag EYE ROLL

Of course, it does because it has more coastline than the US

...but you go ahead and stay ignorant.

#17 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-03-04 02:18 PM | Reply

they can't guarantee anything

source in Birmingham says the PM is talking out his ass.

soon as the phrase "boots on the ground" was read, support sagged.

#18 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-03-04 05:39 PM | Reply

they can't guarantee anything

#18 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN

Why do you people have such a positive desire to see Ukraine fail?

Picked your side?

#19 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-04 05:54 PM | Reply

they can't guarantee anything

#18 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN A

They will guarantee weapons and money, and diplomatic support.

Enough for Ukraine keep on.

That prospect horrifies you.

#20 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-04 05:56 PM | Reply

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