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Britain's leader plans to press partner nations to supply Ukrainian forces with further long-range missiles to target enemy locations during a meeting in London on this Friday.

Sir Keir plans to receive Ukrainian President Zelensky alongside what's known as "group of committed partners", including over twenty of Ukraine's allies who have agreed to provide Ukraine protection commitments once a ceasefire is arranged.

Zelensky has been urging for weeks for further long-range weapons from Western nations, a move that Russia has warned would intensify the war.

Ukraine's leader is travelling from Brussels, where he conferred with European representatives on the previous day seeking economic assistance.

"The only person engaged in this conflict who does not want to end the war is Vladimir Putin," Starmer said.

Britain's leader additionally reveal that one hundred additional air defense systems will be supplied to Ukrainian forces ahead of schedule, as specified in a £1.6bn deal reached between Britain and the Ukrainian government in last spring.

International Support

Ukraine's leader travels after two diplomatic wins recently: the US President's move to enact new measures against Moscow, and European countries consenting to finance a Ukrainian budget hole.

Sir Keir is hoping to continue the momentum by increasing the pressure on Moscow to negotiate a conclusion to the war.

Summit Participants

• NATO leader the Secretary General
• Denmark's Prime Minister Frederiksen
• Dutch Schoof
• Others including France's leader the French president will participate remotely

The Prime Minister will urge participants to increase the delivery of long-range weapons following an effective attack on a chemical plant in the Russian city, the Russian Federation, using UK-provided Storm Shadow missiles.

"And his depraved assaults on young children in a daycare in recent days show that abundantly clear," he continued.

Two children were part of at least seven fatally wounded in numerous Moscow's attacks on Ukrainian territory, which hit a nursery in the major urban center Kharkiv.

Financial Discussions

Sir Keir will confer with Western allies on methods to withdraw Russian oil and gas from international trade.

They will additionally examine employing blocked Russian resources to supply the Ukrainian government with monetary support, though the initiative encountered divided opinions and jurisdictional challenges at the EU conference on yesterday.

European nations stopped short of approving an initiative to use up to €140bn in seized Russian resources to financially prop up Ukraine.

However, the participants consented to assist with Kyiv's "economic requirements" for the coming 24 months.

America also announced measures on midweek against Moscow's two largest petroleum firms, Rosneft Oil and Lukoil Corporation, as element of actions to increase economic pressure on Moscow to enter ceasefire negotiations.

Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country in winter 2022. Russian troops at this time controls about twenty percent of Ukraine's soil, including the Crimean peninsula Moscow took control of in 2014.