🔗 Share this article Starmer to Push Partner Nations on Long-Range Missiles for Ukrainian Forces at London Conference Sir Keir is set to welcome President Zelensky for a meeting of the "coalition of the willing" Britain's leader is expected to urge allies to provide Ukrainian forces with additional long-range missiles to hit Russian targets during discussions in the UK capital on Friday. The prime minister will host 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 offer the Ukrainian government defense assurances once hostilities pause is arranged. Zelensky has been urging for weeks for additional extended-range systems from allied countries, a move that Russia has warned would escalate the hostilities. Ukraine's leader is journeying from the EU capital, where he met European representatives on Thursday seeking economic assistance. "The only person involved in the ongoing war who refuses to stop the war is President Putin," Starmer stated. The Prime Minister will also declare that a hundred further air defence missiles will be supplied to Kyiv ahead of schedule, as outlined in a substantial financial arrangement reached between Britain and Ukraine in March. Global Backing The Ukrainian president travels following significant diplomatic successes in recent days: the US President's move to finally apply new measures against Moscow, and European countries deciding to finance Ukraine's financial gap. The Prime Minister is hoping to sustain the progress by increasing the pressure on Moscow to discuss an end to the hostilities. Summit Participants Alliance chief the Dutch official Danish leader the Danish PM Netherlands' Dick Schoof Others including France's leader the French president will join virtually The Prime Minister will press participants to increase the delivery of long-range weapons following an effective attack on an industrial facility in Bryansk, Russia, using UK-provided advanced weaponry. "Additionally, his brutal strikes on young children in a daycare this week make that abundantly clear," he added. A pair of children were among a minimum of seven killed in multiple enemy assaults on Ukraine, which targeted a nursery in the second biggest city Kharkiv. Budgetary Negotiations Britain's leader will confer with Western allies on how to withdraw Moscow's energy exports from international trade. They will furthermore examine using frozen Russian assets to provide the Ukrainian government with monetary support, though the initiative faced a lack of political consensus and regulatory obstacles at the Brussels summit on yesterday. European Union opted against agreeing to a proposal to utilize as much as €140 billion in blocked Moscow funds to economically support the Ukrainian economy. However, the delegates consented to assist with the country's "budgetary necessities" for the upcoming biennium. United States also revealed measures on midweek against the Russian biggest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, as element of actions to increase financial pressure on Moscow to begin hostility discussions. Russia initiated its comprehensive attack of Ukraine in February 2022. Russian troops presently controls about 20% of the country's land, encompassing the southern region Moscow seized in several years ago.