Starmer holding meeting with Zelensky at No 10

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is gathering Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky successful Downing Street.

The talks travel arsenic Zelensky seeks to unafraid renewed planetary enactment for his country's warfare effort arsenic the struggle with Russia heads into its 3rd winter.

Starmer is besides owed to conscionable Mark Rutte, the caller caput of the Nato subject alliance, astatine No 10 aboriginal successful the morning.

The UK has contributed £12.8bn to Ukraine successful subject and different assistance since Russia launched its full-scale penetration successful February 2022.

More than 200,000 Ukrainian refugees person temporarily settled successful the UK.

Since taking office, the premier curate has continued the argumentation of the erstwhile Conservative authorities successful offering beardown fiscal and diplomatic enactment for Ukraine's warfare effort.

It is the 2nd clip Zelensky has visited Downing Street since Starmer was elected premier minister. In July, the Ukrainian president became the archetypal overseas person to beryllium hosted astatine No 10 since the alteration of government.

Starmer besides met Zelensky successful Ukraine successful February, portion helium was inactive person of the opposition, and held talks with him astatine a Nato acme successful July.

That gathering of Nato countries saw the bloc committedness Ukraine an "irreversible path" to membership, thing the Ukrainian authorities considers captious for its security.

The Downing Street talks are portion of a diplomatic circuit for Zelensky, and helium volition besides sojourn France and Italy aboriginal today.