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The UK Prime Minister will push supporting countries to deliver Ukraine with more advanced missile systems to strike Russian targets during talks in the UK capital on this Friday.

Sir Keir is set to welcome President Volodymyr Zelensky alongside what's known as "coalition of the willing", including over twenty of Ukraine's allies who have agreed to offer Kyiv defense assurances once hostilities pause is brokered.

The Ukrainian leader has been urging for several weeks for more extended-range systems from the West, a move that Moscow has cautions would escalate the war.

The Ukrainian president is travelling from Belgium, where he met EU leaders on yesterday pursuing financial support.

"The only person engaged in the ongoing war who does not want to halt the conflict is Vladimir Putin," Starmer stated.

The Prime Minister additionally announce that 100 further air defense systems will be delivered to Ukraine sooner than scheduled, as outlined in a £1.6bn deal reached between Britain and Kyiv in spring.

Diplomatic Momentum

Ukraine's leader travels following significant diplomatic successes recently: Donald Trump's decision to finally apply additional restrictions against Moscow, and European countries consenting to support Ukraine's financial gap.

The Prime Minister is seeking to sustain the progress by escalating the leverage on Moscow to pursue a resolution to the conflict.

Summit Participants

• NATO leader the Secretary General
• Denmark's Prime Minister Frederiksen
• Holland's the Netherlands leader
• Others including France's leader Macron will attend online

The Prime Minister will press participants to increase the supply of advanced missile technology following an effective attack on a chemical plant in the Russian city, Russia, using British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles.

"Furthermore, his horrific attacks on young children in a daycare this week make that perfectly obvious," he continued.

A pair of children were among at least seven fatally wounded in a wave of Russian strikes on Ukrainian territory, which hit a preschool facility in the important metropolitan area Kharkiv.

Economic Talks

Britain's leader will confer with supporting countries on approaches for withdraw Russian oil and gas out of worldwide commerce.

Delegates will furthermore consider using blocked Russian resources to offer the Ukrainian government with monetary support, while the initiative encountered divided opinions and regulatory obstacles at the Brussels summit on yesterday.

European Union declined to approving to a proposal to use up to €140bn in frozen Russian assets to monetarily assist the Ukrainian economy.

Nonetheless, the leaders decided to contribute to the country's "financial needs" for the coming 24 months.

The US additionally announced restrictions on midweek against the Russian two largest petroleum firms, Rosneft Oil and Lukoil, as part of efforts to increase monetary leverage on Moscow to enter ceasefire negotiations.

Moscow began its full-scale invasion of Ukrainian territory in winter 2022. The invading forces currently controls about one-fifth of Ukrainian territory, comprising the southern region Moscow seized in 2014.