Ukraine ceasefire plans moving to operational phase, Starmer says

UK prime minister accuses Putin of trying to delay peace and calls for ‘guns to fall silent’

Keir Starmer has called for the “guns to fall silent in Ukraine” and said military powers will meet next week as plans to secure a peace deal move to an “operational phase”.

The UK prime minister said Vladimir Putin’s “yes, but” approach to a proposed ceasefire was not good enough, and the Russian president would have to negotiate “sooner or later”.

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