Trump has changed Ukraine conversation, Starmer says

US President Donald Trump has "changed the planetary conversation" connected Ukraine, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said, 3 years connected from Russia's full-scale invasion.

Sir Keir suggested Trump had "created an opportunity" to extremity the war, successful a code to an planetary acme connected supporting Ukraine successful Kyiv.

The premier curate besides appeared to contradict President Trump by saying "Russia does not clasp each the cards successful this war".

Sir Keir said the West "must summation the unit adjacent further" connected Russia and announced the UK would enforce a caller circular of sanctions connected the country.

The premier curate said much sanctions could propulsion President Vladimir Putin "to a constituent wherever helium is acceptable not conscionable to talk, but to marque concessions".

On Monday the UK authorities said it had imposed much than 100 caller sanctions connected those who continued to assistance the invasion, including companies successful China, which is the largest supplier of captious goods for Russia's military.

Meanwhile, the Home Office has announced a determination to widen question sanctions for Kremlin-linked elites.

Sir Keir said the G7 "should beryllium acceptable to instrumentality connected much risk" and a larger relation successful sanctioning Russian's lipid giants, up of a telephone with leaders of the radical of affluent countries.

The code comes up of Sir Keir's gathering with President Trump astatine the White House connected Thursday.

He is expected to sermon the value of Ukraine's independence, US information guarantees and European engagement successful bid talks erstwhile helium speaks to Trump.

It is simply a high-stakes visits arsenic European leaders scramble to enactment guardant their ain proposals for ending the warfare and keeping Russia astatine bay.

President Trump has been pushing for a speedy woody to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine, and US and Russia person held archetypal talks, which excluded Ukraine and European countries.

Trump has said helium believes Russia has "the cards" successful immoderate bid talks to extremity the warfare due to the fact that its subject has "taken a batch of territory".

There person been diplomatic tensions since President Trump called Volodymyr Zelensky a "dictator without elections" past week.

Ukraine's elections are suspended nether martial law, which has been successful spot since Russia's full-scale penetration was launched successful February 2022.

The premier curate talked astir other sanctions arsenic 1 mode to "deliver an enduring peace" successful Ukraine.

He said the different 2 ways were stepping UK subject enactment to Ukraine and bringing "our corporate spot to the bid effort".

"President Trump has changed the planetary speech implicit the past fewer weeks," Sir Keir said.

"And it has created an opportunity. Now, we indispensable get the fundamentals right."

He said Ukraine "must person a spot astatine the table" of bid talks and "a US backstop volition beryllium captious to deter Russia from different invasion".

Sir Keir finished his code by repeating what a diligent astatine burns portion told him during a sojourn to Kyiv.

"If Ukraine fails, Europe volition beryllium next. That is what's astatine involvement here."

Sir Keir has spoken connected the telephone to French President Emmanuel Macron, who is gathering Trump successful Washington connected Monday.

In the telephone telephone connected Sunday, Sir Keir and Macron "compared notes" connected however champion to attack President Trump, authorities sources told the BBC.

British officials said the premier curate is keen for European subject powers to contiguous a co-ordinated transportation to the US president, and besides sermon economical issues, including tariffs.

Earlier, erstwhile Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged President Zelensky to unafraid Ukraine's aboriginal by signing a minerals woody with the US.

Johnson said helium believed Ukraine would motion a "promising" statement to springiness the US entree to invaluable minerals, successful instrumentality for information guarantees.

Zelensky had rejected a £400bn ($500bn) request for mineral wealth, but implicit the weekend, US officials said they expected to motion a woody this week.

On Sunday, President Zelensky suggested talks had progressed, but rejected immoderate statement that would person to beryllium "repaid by generations and generations of Ukrainians".

In a station connected X connected Monday, Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine's lawman premier curate for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, said the Ukrainian and US teams were "in the last stages of negotiations regarding the minerals agreement".

Ukraine holds immense deposits of captious elements and minerals thought to beryllium worthy billions of dollars, including lithium and titanium, arsenic good arsenic sizeable quantities of coal, gas, lipid and uranium.

Speaking to the BBC, Johnson - a Zelensky state who was premier curate erstwhile the penetration started - said claims by immoderate Americans that Ukraine had provoked the warfare were "a implicit inversion of the truth".

He described Trump's comments arsenic "Orwellian", and said helium mightiness arsenic good person blamed the US for the Japanese onslaught connected Pearl Harbor during World War Two.

But Johnson said it was important to absorption connected a minerals deal, which helium called "the large prize".

He rejected suggestions the woody was a "rip-off" and said "what the Ukrainians get from this is simply a United States committedness nether Donald Trump to a free, sovereign and unafraid Ukraine".

"I anticipation and judge that today, this week, that statement is going to beryllium signed," Johnson said.

Additional reporting by Joe Pike, governmental correspondent