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The UK Prime Minister is expected to urge supporting countries to supply Ukrainian forces with more long-range missiles to hit Russian targets during a meeting in Britain on this Friday.

Britain's leader will host Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky alongside the so-called "coalition of the willing", consisting of more than 20 of supporting nations who have agreed to provide Ukraine security guarantees once fighting stops is arranged.

Ukraine's president has been urging for weeks for additional long-range weapons from Western nations, a move that Russia has warned would escalate the hostilities.

Ukraine's leader is travelling from Brussels, where he held talks with European Union officials on the previous day seeking funding aid.

"The sole individual participating in this conflict who refuses to stop the fighting is Vladimir Putin," Starmer remarked.

The Prime Minister additionally reveal that a hundred additional anti-aircraft missiles will be provided to Ukrainian forces sooner than scheduled, as outlined in a £1.6bn deal reached between Britain and Kyiv in spring.

Global Backing

The Ukrainian president comes off the back of important international achievements in recent days: the US President's move to finally apply new measures against Moscow, and the European Union agreeing to fund Ukraine's financial gap.

Sir Keir is seeking to continue the momentum by increasing the leverage on Moscow to discuss a resolution to the war.

Summit Participants

• Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte
• Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen
• Netherlands' Dick Schoof
• Further attendees like Paris's head Emmanuel Macron will attend online

The Prime Minister will encourage delegates to ramp up the provision of long-range weapons following a productive strike on a chemical plant in the Bryansk region, Russia, using British-supplied missile systems.

"Furthermore, his horrific strikes on small children in a nursery this week show that perfectly obvious," he added.

Two children were among no fewer than seven killed in multiple enemy assaults on the country, which targeted a nursery in the second biggest city Ukraine's second city.

Financial Discussions

The Prime Minister will consult supporting countries on how to withdraw Russian oil and gas off the global market.

They will also discuss employing frozen Russian assets to offer Kyiv with financial loans, though the plan experienced insufficient agreement and legal hurdles at the European meeting on yesterday.

European Union stopped short of consenting a plan to use up to €140bn in seized Russian resources to monetarily assist the Ukrainian economy.

Nevertheless, the leaders agreed to help support Kyiv's "financial needs" for the next two years.

America additionally announced restrictions on midweek against the Russian major oil companies, Rosneft Oil and Lukoil, as component of initiatives to increase financial pressure on Moscow to enter hostility discussions.

Russia initiated its full-scale invasion of Ukrainian territory in February 2022. The invading forces presently occupies about one-fifth of Ukraine's soil, comprising the southern Crimea peninsular the Russian government annexed in 2014.