🔗 Share this article Sir Keir Starmer to Press Partner Nations on Extended-Range Weaponry for Ukraine at London Summit The British Prime Minister plans to receive Ukraine's leader for a meeting of the "alliance of supportive nations" The UK Prime Minister is expected to urge partner nations to supply Ukrainian forces with additional extended-range weaponry to target enemy locations during discussions in Britain on Friday. Britain's leader plans to receive President the Ukrainian head of state alongside what's known as "group of committed partners", comprising over twenty of Kyiv's partners who have pledged to provide the Ukrainian government security guarantees once fighting stops is arranged. Ukraine's president has been urging for several weeks for additional long-range weapons from the West, an action that the Russian government has stated would escalate the war. Ukraine's leader is travelling from the EU capital, where he met European representatives on yesterday pursuing financial support. "The single figure involved in the ongoing war who refuses to stop the fighting is President Putin," Sir Keir stated. The Prime Minister additionally announce that a hundred extra anti-aircraft missiles will be provided to Ukraine sooner than scheduled, as specified in a £1.6bn deal reached between Britain and Ukraine in March. Global Backing Zelensky comes off the back of important international achievements in recent days: the US President's move to finally apply additional restrictions against Russia, and EU nations deciding to fund Kyiv's budgetary shortfall. Sir Keir is aiming to sustain the momentum by escalating the leverage on Russia to discuss a conclusion to the war. Meeting Attendees Nato Secretary General the Dutch official Danish leader Frederiksen Dutch Dick Schoof Additional participants such as France's leader Emmanuel Macron will participate remotely Britain's leader will press participants to ramp up the delivery of extended-range systems following a productive strike on a chemical plant in the Bryansk region, Russia, using British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles. "Additionally, his horrific assaults on young children in a nursery recently make that perfectly obvious," he added. Two children were included in at least seven lost in multiple Russian strikes on Ukraine, which struck a nursery in the major urban center Ukraine's second city. Budgetary Negotiations Sir Keir will confer with Western allies on approaches for withdraw Moscow's energy exports off the global market. The participants will furthermore consider using blocked Russian resources to provide Ukraine with monetary support, while the initiative experienced divided opinions and legal hurdles at the European meeting on Thursday. European nations declined to consenting a plan to utilize as much as €140 billion in frozen Russian assets to economically support Ukraine. However, the delegates decided to contribute to Kyiv's "financial needs" for the coming 24 months. United States additionally revealed measures on Wednesday against the Russian major oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, as element of actions to apply monetary leverage on Russia to enter ceasefire negotiations. Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukrainian territory in February 2022. The invading forces at this time occupies about one-fifth of Ukrainian territory, comprising the Crimean peninsula Moscow seized in several years ago.