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Sir Keir Starmer is expected to urge supporting countries to deliver Ukrainian forces with additional extended-range weaponry to strike enemy locations during discussions in the UK capital on the upcoming Friday.

The prime minister is set to welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky alongside referred to as "coalition of the willing", consisting of more than 20 of Ukraine's allies who have pledged to offer Kyiv defense assurances once fighting stops is brokered.

Zelensky has been urging for several weeks for further long-range weapons from the West, a move that Russia has warned would escalate the war.

The Ukrainian president is coming from Belgium, where he met EU leaders on yesterday pursuing funding aid.

"The single figure engaged in this conflict who declines to halt the war is President Putin," the Prime Minister remarked.

The Prime Minister will also reveal that one hundred extra air defense systems will be provided to Kyiv earlier than planned, as outlined in a multi-billion pound agreement struck between the United Kingdom and the Ukrainian government in spring.

Diplomatic Momentum

Zelensky arrives off the back of significant diplomatic successes in recent days: Washington's action to implement additional restrictions against Russia, and the European Union agreeing to support Kyiv's budgetary shortfall.

Sir Keir is seeking to maintain the progress by increasing the pressure on Moscow to negotiate a resolution to the hostilities.

Summit Participants

• Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte
• Copenhagen's head Frederiksen
• Dutch Schoof
• Additional participants such as French President the French president will join virtually

Sir Keir will press delegates to ramp up the supply of extended-range systems following a successful strike on a manufacturing site in the Bryansk region, the Russian Federation, using British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles.

"Furthermore, his brutal attacks 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 a wave of Moscow's attacks on Ukraine, which hit a nursery in the major urban center the eastern city.

Economic Talks

Britain's leader will discuss with supporting countries on methods to take Russia's petroleum resources off the global market.

The participants will additionally consider using frozen Russian assets to provide the Ukrainian government with financial loans, while the proposal faced insufficient agreement and jurisdictional challenges at the European meeting on yesterday.

European Union declined to consenting a plan to employ up to €140bn in seized Russian resources to economically support Kyiv's finances.

However, the delegates decided to contribute to Ukraine's "budgetary necessities" for the upcoming biennium.

United States also disclosed restrictions on recently against Russia's biggest oil companies, the state-owned company and Lukoil Corporation, as part of efforts to add financial pressure on Moscow to commence ceasefire negotiations.

The Russian government launched its full-scale invasion of Ukrainian territory in early 2022. The invading forces presently holds about one-fifth of Ukrainian territory, including the southern Crimea peninsular Moscow seized in the year 2014.