After a summit of European leaders in London, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said a “coalition of the willing” would be assembled to defend Ukraine, but he did not name the countries expected to participate.

The West is at a “crossroads in history,” Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer told European leaders at a pivotal summit in London on Sunday, as the continent sought to wrestle control of negotiations over the Russia-Ukraine war away from the US and present a united front amid a meltdown in relations between Kyiv and Washington.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer rallied his European counterparts to shore up their borders and throw their full weight behind Ukraine.

Putin casts the conflict in Ukraine as part of an existential battle with a declining and decadent West which he says humiliated Russia after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 by enlar

Russia praised US President Donald Trump's "common sense" aim to end the Ukraine war but accused European countries of seeking to prolong the conflict. On Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the United States still wanted to be the world's most powerful country adding that Washington and Moscow would never see eye to eye on everything.