The military planning of Ukraine Peace moves to the “operational phase”, says Starmer

Prime Minister Sir Kyar Starmer said military planning to protect the potential termination of Ukraine’s fire is moving to the “operational phase” after a virtual meeting with 29 other world leaders.

Military leaders will gather on Thursday in the United Kingdom, “to put strong and stable plans to swing behind a peaceful deal and to guarantee the future security of Ukraine,” said Sir Keyer.

The meeting follows Ukraine, who agrees to a 30-day termination of fire after talks with the United States. Russian President Vladimir Putin said he agreed with the idea, but set a number of prerequisites for peace.

President of Ukraine Volodimir Zelenski, who joined the Saturday meeting, said “active pressure was needed, not just conversations.”

“The world must understand that Russia is the only obstacle that prevents peace,” he said.

“The path to peace must start unconditionally. If Russia does not want it, then intense pressure must be applied until they do so. Moscow understands a language,” Zelenski added.

He urged European countries to produce their own weapons as soon as possible and talk to the United States and its President Donald Trump to achieve a deal more quickly through “full sanctions, intense pressure and forcing Russia to make peace.”

In speech after video, Sir Keyer said “The world needs action … not empty words and conditions.”

In a statement, he said that the “blur and delay of the Kremlin” because of the proposal to end the fire and its continuing attacks on Ukraine “completely contradicts President Putin’s request for peace.”

The leaders agreed on Saturday that if Putin declined “immediately and unconditional cessation of fire,” they would have to “amplify pressure … to convince him to come to the negotiating table,” said Sir Keyer.

“To deliver this, we will accelerate our military support, tighten our sanctions on Russia’s revenue, and continue to explore all legal routes to ensure that Russia is paying for the damage it has been done to Ukraine,” the statement said.

Putin said on Thursday that he supported the idea of ​​ending the fire, but added “there are nuances” and asked a list of questions about details, including whether the cessation of the fire would allow Ukraine to remedy and who would police.

Participants in the call on Saturday included NATO, the European Union, nearly two dozen European countries, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Military superiors will meet this week to continue forward of “practical plans” about how their military can support Ukraine, Sir Keyer said.

“We will build our own defenses of Ukraine and the armed forces and be ready to unfold as a” coalition of desire “in the event of a peaceful deal to help secure Ukraine on Earth, in the sea and in the sky,” his statement said.

Sir Cayer presented the idea of ​​a “coalition of the desire” to protect the ceasefire early this month, and on Saturday he said he had grown and included support from Japan and others.

The prime minister said he was “ready and ready” to put the UK troops in Ukraine to help guarantee his security as part of the peace deal. He called on other European countries to engage in specific security guarantees and said a “rear” was needed.

At a press conference after the Zelenski summit, he said he needed some form of “boots on the ground” after the ceasefire was stopped, although he acknowledged that some were “skeptical”.

Finnish President Alexander Stub told BBC on Sunday with Laura Quensberg after the summit that it was “still too early” to talk about putting troops on the spot as part of any security guarantee.

Stub said that Finland is ready to be part of the effort to protect the peace deal, but said: “It is early to talk about boots on the spot because we have no cessation of fire, we have no peace process. After we have a clear plan, we start making commitments.”

He said there is “from zero to 50 different ways they can help, the boots on the ground are only one way.”

Thousands have been killed since Russia began a full -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.