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Sir Keir Starmer will push allies to provide Ukraine with additional advanced missile systems to strike Moscow's positions during discussions in London on the upcoming Friday.

The prime minister will host President the Ukrainian head of state alongside the so-called "coalition of the willing", comprising over twenty of Kyiv's partners who have agreed to grant Ukraine protection commitments once a ceasefire is brokered.

The Ukrainian leader has been urging for an extended period for additional long-range weapons from the West, a move that Moscow has warned would worsen the hostilities.

The Ukrainian president is journeying from Brussels, where he met EU leaders on the previous day pursuing funding aid.

"The single figure involved in current hostilities who does not want to halt the war is Vladimir Putin," Sir Keir said.

Sir Keir will also reveal that a hundred additional anti-aircraft missiles will be delivered to Ukraine sooner than scheduled, as outlined in a £1.6bn deal reached between the United Kingdom and the Ukrainian government in March.

Diplomatic Momentum

Zelensky travels following two diplomatic wins in recent days: Donald Trump's decision to enact new measures against Moscow, and European countries agreeing to support Ukraine's financial gap.

Sir Keir is hoping to maintain the progress by increasing the leverage on the Kremlin to negotiate an end to the war.

Meeting Attendees

• NATO leader the Dutch official
• Danish leader the Danish PM
• Netherlands' Dick Schoof
• Others including France's leader Emmanuel Macron will attend online

The Prime Minister will urge leaders to expand the supply of long-range weapons following an effective attack on an industrial facility in Bryansk, Russia, using UK-provided advanced weaponry.

"And his depraved strikes on innocent children in a preschool in recent days show that perfectly obvious," he continued.

Several minors were among no fewer than seven fatally wounded in numerous enemy assaults on Ukraine, which targeted a nursery in the second biggest city Ukraine's second city.

Financial Discussions

Sir Keir will consult partner nations on how to withdraw Moscow's energy exports off the global market.

Delegates will also discuss employing frozen Russian assets to provide Kyiv with monetary support, although the initiative faced insufficient agreement and regulatory obstacles at the European meeting on yesterday.

European Union opted against consenting a plan to use as much as €140 billion in blocked Moscow funds to economically support the Ukrainian economy.

Nevertheless, the delegates agreed to help support Ukraine's "budgetary necessities" for the upcoming biennium.

United States also revealed restrictions on recently against Russia's major oil companies, Rosneft Oil and Lukoil Corporation, as component of initiatives to increase economic pressure on Moscow to enter peace talks.

Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of the country in early 2022. Russian troops presently controls about twenty percent of Ukraine's soil, encompassing the Crimean peninsula Russia took control of in several years ago.