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Sir Keir Starmer is expected to urge supporting countries to provide Ukraine with more advanced missile systems to target Russian targets during a meeting in London on this Friday.

Sir Keir plans to receive Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky alongside the so-called "coalition of the willing", including more than 20 of Ukraine's allies who have agreed to provide Kyiv security guarantees once hostilities pause is brokered.

Zelensky has been appealing for several weeks for additional advanced missile technology from the West, a step that Moscow has cautions would escalate the war.

President Zelensky is travelling from Belgium, where he conferred with European Union officials on yesterday pursuing financial support.

"The single figure participating in current hostilities who does not want to stop the war is Vladimir Putin," Sir Keir remarked.

Sir Keir furthermore announce that a hundred extra air defense systems will be delivered to Kyiv ahead of schedule, as detailed in a multi-billion pound agreement struck between the UK and Kyiv in March.

International Support

Ukraine's leader travels after significant diplomatic successes this week: Donald Trump's decision to implement new measures against Moscow, and the European Union agreeing to finance a Ukrainian budget hole.

Sir Keir is seeking to continue the forward movement by intensifying the influence on the Kremlin to pursue an end to the conflict.

Summit Participants

• Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte
• Denmark's Prime Minister the Danish PM
• Netherlands' the Netherlands leader
• Further attendees like France's leader Macron will join virtually

The Prime Minister will urge leaders to ramp up the delivery of extended-range systems following a successful operation on a manufacturing site in Bryansk, the Russian Federation, using British-supplied missile systems.

"Furthermore, his horrific strikes on innocent children in a daycare this week make that perfectly obvious," he stated further.

A pair of children were part of no fewer than seven lost in multiple enemy assaults on Ukrainian territory, which struck a preschool facility in the major urban center the eastern city.

Economic Talks

Sir Keir will consult Western allies on approaches for remove Russia's petroleum resources from international trade.

The participants will furthermore discuss using seized Moscow funds to provide Kyiv with economic assistance, while the initiative faced a lack of political consensus and jurisdictional challenges at the European meeting on Thursday.

European Union stopped short of consenting an initiative to utilize as much as €140 billion in frozen Russian assets to financially prop up Ukraine.

Nonetheless, the delegates consented to contribute to Kyiv's "economic requirements" for the next two years.

The US furthermore announced restrictions on recently against Moscow's two largest petroleum firms, the state-owned company and Lukoil, as component of initiatives to increase financial pressure on Russia to commence peace talks.

Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It currently holds about twenty percent of the country's land, comprising the southern Crimea peninsular Moscow took control of in several years ago.