Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer ‘we count on your support’ during the meeting.

King Charles III will host an audience with Volodymyr Zelensky at Sandringham on Sunday, just two days after the Ukrainian president's chaotic talks with Donald Trump

It comes after Mr Zelensky’s unprecedented public clash with US President Donald Trump.

Volodymyr Zelensky was greeted by Keir Starmer with a hug as he arrived on Downing Street for a meeting this afternoon.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is 'ready' to sign the minerals agreement with Donald Trump but stressed that his country needs security guarantees going forward

Sir Keir Starmer walked along Downing Street before embracing Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky with a warm hug as he arrived for talks with the prime minister.

Mr Starmer - unusually - walked up Downing Street to greet Mr Zelensky from his motorcade - and the PM pulled his war ravaged counterpart into a warm embrace, before posing for pictures outside the black door of No10

The White House was the scene of a furious bust-up between American president Donald Trump and Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky as they met to discuss the ongoing war with Russia.

Summit comes after unprecedented public clash between Ukrainian leader, US President Donald Trump and his vice president JD Vance in the White House's Oval Office on Friday.

It comes two years after their first meeting at Buckingham Palace

Trump and Vance, I think, never really intended to have a conversation with Zelenskky. Instead, they wanted to look tough on TVThe last time Donald Trump did this, it was in secret, and he got impeached over it. In 2019, Donald Trump, on a phone call with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, demanded that the Ukrainian president produce – or fabricate – evidence of wrongdoing by Hunter Biden, the son of Trump’s eventual opponent in the 2020 election, in exchange for continued US military aide.At the time, Russia had already seized control of the Ukrainian region of Crimea, and was funding violent insurgent groups in the country’s east; it was increasingly clear that a full-scale Russian invasion was coming, as it finally did in 2022. Since the end of second world war, it has been America that checks Russian expansionist ambitions in Europe – America that provided the backstop to the Nato alliance, America that secured the independence of eastern Europe. Trump wanted to condition that longstanding r...

Following Volodymr Zelenskyy's fiery showdown with Donald Trump descended into chaos yesterday, the Ukrainian President is set to meet King Charles III after a spokesperson said 'we are in London'

In a fast-moving crisis, the EU hasn’t been nimble enough. The onus must fall on ‘coalitions of the willing’ to stop a US-Putin carve-upAt moments of great crisis, national leaders and governments generally put their countries’ (and their own) interests first. Transnational geopolitical, economic and security alliances are all very well. But if such organisations do not or cannot rise to the urgent challenges of the day, they risk being bypassed, ignored or shunted aside. This is the predicament now facing the European Union.After Donald Trump’s appalling treatment of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in full view of the watching world on Friday night, all agree that the US president’s betrayal of Ukraine, sickening embrace of Russia and his blunt demand that Europe henceforth defend itself represent just such an extraordinary challenge, and one that must be swiftly addressed. Continue reading...

‘What we saw today is the culmination of an arrogant small man’s ego FINALLY meeting world leaders who won’t put up with it,’ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says

Watch live as Volodymyr Zelensky meets with Sir Keir Starmer today (1 March) following the Ukrainian president’s explosive Oval Office showdown with Donald Trump.

Volodymyr Zelensky insists leaders need to be ‘honest and direct with each other’ as he prepares to meet prime minister in Downing Street

Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky had a heated exchange with Donald Trump at the White House and arriving in the UK he has suggested he is willing to compromise for a peace with Russia

Before his political career, Mr Zelensky played a teacher in a TV series who becomes president after a video of him denouncing corruption goes viral.

US President Donald Trump has attacked the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky calling him a "dictator" before another sour exchange at the White House which has been well received in Russia

Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived in the UK a day earlier than expected after a tumultuous visit to the US, which saw him publicly humiliated by Donald Trump

Volodymyr Zelensky touched down at Stansted Airport this morning a day earlier than expected following a nightmare trip to the US, which saw him berated in front of the cameras by an angry Donald Trump

A political analyst has claimed that Vladimir Putin may have played a part in Donald Trump's decision to 'boot out' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from the US after the pair's botched meeting on Friday

As the prime minister prepares to host European leaders at a Downing Street summit this weekend, to discuss the Russian threat, his ‘triumphant’ White House visit has been tarnished by televised punishment beating of Volodymyr Zelensky, says John Rentoul

Watch a live view of Downing Street as Volodymyr Zelensky meets Sir Keir Starmer following the Ukrainian president’s explosive Oval Office showdown with Donald Trump.

Back home there was widespread support for Ukraine’s president, but also dismay at his car-crash encounter in the Oval OfficeLive reaction to Zelenskyy’s clash with Trump and VanceUkrainians have rallied behind Volodymyr Zelenskyy after his mauling on Friday in the White House, and have accused Donald Trump and the US vice-president, JD Vance, of deliberately and cynically “starting a brawl”.There was widespread support for Ukraine’s president at home and dismay at his car-crash encounter in the Oval Office. There was also praise for Zelenskyy’s insistence that a peace deal without security guarantees was meaningless, and that Russia could not be trusted. Continue reading...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has thanked the American people and leadership and voiced hope for “strong relations,” a day after an astonishing Oval Office blowout with U.S. President Donald Trump that left many uncertain where the once staunch allies stood

Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of 'tough dialogue' in the new statement shared shortly after he touched down in the UK for a landmark European summit chaired by Keir Starmer

Volodymyr Zelensky insists leaders need to be ‘honest and direct with each other’ as he prepares to meet prime minister in Downing Street

The White House was the scene of a furious bust-up between American president Donald Trump and Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky as they met to discuss the ongoing war with Russia.

The Ukrainian leader was reportedly kicked out of the White House on Friday.

The Prime Minister will meet the Ukrainian president in Downing Street on Saturday afternoon before a conference of European leaders on Sunday.

Donald Trump and his supporters were unhappy at the combat outfit which was worn by Volodymyr Zelensky during a stormy meeting at the White House with claims it was an "insult"

Volodymyr Zelenskyy's plane lands in UK ahead of major summit in London  Sky News

Ukraine's presidential plane was seen arriving at Stansted Airport this morning, having flown overnight from the US

Ukraine's presidential plane was seen arriving at Stansted Airport this morning, having flown overnight from the US - and Downing Street confirmed he'll meet with the PM this afternoon

Watch live as Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky arrives in the UK today (1 March) following his explosive Oval Office clash with Donald Trump.

The TV star has jumped to the defence of Volodymyr Zelensky over his combat outfit at the White House with a social media post saying his treatment was "appalling and shameful"

Volodymyr Zelensky is given a standing ovation by soldiers and Ukrainians who have fled the war in a new footage taken in the hours after his face-off with Donald Trump in the Oval Office

Volodymyr Zelensky has issued a new response to Donald Trump after their showdown in the White House - and has told the people of Ukraine that they are 'not alone'

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed Donald Trump's outburst against Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House was a 'predictable outcome' and blamed the Ukrainian president for the ugly scenes

European leaders voice support for Ukrainian leader as US support for Kyiv hangs in the balance following disastrous meetingJD Vance was supposed to be the inconsequential vice-president.But his starring role in Friday’s blowup between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy – where he played a cross between Trump’s bulldog and tech bro Iago – may mark the moment that the postwar alliance between Europe and America finally collapsed. Continue reading...

Marco Rubio said that Volodymyr Zelensky should apologize to Donald Trump and cast doubts on whether the Ukrainian president really wants peace after their disaster meeting.

Vance snaked his way in first to the row between Trump and Zelenskyy, his second intrusion this month after MunichJD Vance was supposed to be the inconsequential vice-president.But his starring role in Friday’s blowup between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy – where he played a cross between Trump’s bulldog and tech bro Iago – may mark the moment that the postwar alliance between Europe and America finally collapsed. Continue reading...

After Donald Trump lambasts Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, it is clearer than ever before that Europe needs to look to its own defences

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s social media site was flooded with moving messages of support from leaders around the world, including the U.S., after he was mocked and yelled at by President Donald Trump Friday in a meeting in the Oval Office.

Zelenskyy regrets clash but says Kyiv won’t enter peace talks without security guarantees against another offensive. What we know on day 1,102See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageAfter an extraordinary exchange with US president Donald Trump at the White House, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy made an appearance on Fox News in which he said the public row was “not good for both sides.” But Zelenskyy said Trump – who insists Putin is ready to end the three-year grinding war – needs to understand that Ukraine can’t change its attitudes toward Russia on a dime. Zelenskyy added that Ukraine won’t enter peace talks with Russia until it has security guarantees against another offensive. “It’s so sensitive for our people,” Zelenskyy said. “And they just want to hear that America (is) on our side, that America will stay with us. Not with Russia, with us. That’s it.”After the tense exchange and shortly before departing for his Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida for the weekend, Trum...

The shocking and unprecedented scenes in the Oval Office dominate UK front pages today, with the papers united in horror The unprecedented scenes in the Oval Office dominated the front pages on Saturday, with the papers united in their horror. Adjectives including disastrous and vile were used to describe the meeting in which Donald Trump and his vice-president JD Vance openly berated the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy.The Guardian leads with a quote from Donald Trump: “You are gambling with world war three”, characterising the meeting between the US and Ukrainian presidents as “disastrous”. In a separate sketch of the furious row, David Smith wrote that “Trump on Friday presided over one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history.” Continue reading...

Donald Trump became petulant towards Volodymyr Zelensky in a tense televised blowout in the Oval Office on Friday - and reaction across the world has been fierce

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has revealed he would like to see Russia return to play in the World Cup in the future. Russia have been banned from international football since invading Ukraine.

Kremlin officials took aim at Volodymyr Zelensky following the Ukrainian President's tense meeting with Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Friday - during which Mr Trump mocked Mr Zelensky's clothes

Donald Trump refused to confirm whether Volodymyr Zelensky was kicked out of the White House following the pair’s explosive meeting, during which the US president and vice president JD Vance repeatedly raised their voices at the Ukrainian leader.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky refused to apologize in his first major interview since his disaster brawl and public meltdown with Donald Trump and JD Vance.

Australian PM pledges support for Ukraine president after explosive White House meeting – but declines to directly comment on US president’s approachGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has reiterated Australia’s support for Ukraine after a fiery meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy – but declined to comment directly on how the confrontation might affect Australia’s relationship with the US.US military support for Ukraine hangs in the balance and talks over a minerals deal deteriorated after a disastrous interchange at the White House that also included the US vice-president, JD Vance. The US president claimed his Ukraine counterpart was not “ready for peace” and accused him of “gambling with world war three”, before Zelenskyy left the White House early.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

Soon after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy left the White House after an astonishing Oval Office blowout with President Donald Trump, Ukrainians rallied around Zelenskyy as a defender of his country's interests

The EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said ‘the free world needs a new leader’ and that it was up to Europeans to take this challengeLive updates The EU foreign policy chief has declared that “the free world needs a new leader”, as European leaders threw their support behind Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after the stunning White House confrontation between him and Donald Trump.Leaders from across Europe expressed their solidarity with the Ukrainian leader after the fractious exchange with JD Vance, the US vice-president, and Trump, who claimed he was not “ready for peace” and accused him of “gambling with world war three”. Continue reading...

Taoiseach Micheal Martin said he believes Europe will continue to stand with Ukraine, but added that it also has to keep engaging with the US.

The Orange Manbaby's latest tantrum saw the Preisdent and his deputy Vance team up to 'bully' Volodymyr Zelenskyy in what appeared to be an 'ambush' on the Ukrainian who came to sign a deal

Prime minister Keir Starmer declared his “unwavering support” for Ukraine as senior Conservative MPs, including Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, leapt to the Mr Zelensky’s defence

Russia cheered on President Donald Trump in his Oval Office showdown Volodymyr Zelensky that resulted in the Ukrainian president being kicked out of the White House and peace talks put on hold.

Press conference between US and Ukraine leaders cancelled and no minerals deal signed after angry scenes in White House; European leaders stand behind ZelenskyyUkraine ‘gambling with world war three’, Trump tells ZelenskyyDemocrats defend Zelenskyy after ‘shameful’ Trump meetingin AthensThe peaceful scenes in central Athens have now been eclipsed by the eruption of full scale clashes between rock-throwing youths and riot police. Continue reading...

Volodymyr Zelensky has left the White House after the meeting to sign a critical mineral deal descended into chaos

Donald Trump greeted Volodymyr Zelensky by appearing to mock his outfit as the Ukrainian president arrived for talks at the White House on Friday, 28 February.

EXCLUSIVE: Vladimir Putin will be 'laughing his backside off' in the Kremlin following the tense row between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, an expert has said

The president said his horrific blowup would make ‘great television’ – the White House has rarely seen anything like thisDon’t let a billionaire’s algorithm control what you read. Download our free app to get trusted reporting“This is going to be great television,” Donald Trump remarked at the end. Sure. And the captain of the Titanic probably assured his passengers that this would make a great movie some day.Trump has just presided over one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history. Tempers flared, voices were raised and protocol was shredded in the once hallowed in the Oval Office. As Trump got into a shouting match Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a horrified Europe watched the post-second world war order crumble before its eyes. Continue reading...

Heartbreaking footage from the Oval Office shows Oksana Markarova on the brink of tears as Donald Trump and JD Vance tried to bully Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Trump accuses Ukrainian leader of ‘gambling with World War Three’ in Oval Office clash

Mr Zelensky issued an apology on X following the spat which saw him being kicked out of the White House.

Vice President JD Vance publicly dressed down Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.for not being respectful enough to President Donald Trump during a dramatic Oval Office meeting.

Trump accuses Ukrainian leader of ‘gambling with World War Three’ in Oval Office clash

Ukrainian leader abruptly left White House after being publicly berated by US president in Russia ceasefire talksUS politics live – latest updatesDemocratic lawmakers rushed to defend Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the Ukrainian leader was publicly berated by Donald Trump in a disastrous Oval Office meeting.The US president accused Zelenskyy of “gambling with world war three” while his vice-president, JD Vance, called the Ukrainian leader “disrespectful”, before cutting short talks aimed at kicking off the process of ending Kyiv’s three-year war with Russia. Continue reading...

Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskys Oval Office meeting descended into chaos on Friday, 28 February, as Ukraine’s president was due to sign a critical minerals deal in an effort to regain US backing against Russia’s invasion.

Volodymyr Zelensky posted a classy message thanking the American people shortly after the cowardly and shameful bullying he endured from Donald Trump and JV Vance in front of the world's cameras

Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend mocked Volodymyr Zelensky for not wearing a suit during the Ukrainian leader's chaotic meeting with Donald Trump at the Oval Office on Friday, 28 February.

Volodymyr Zelensky has left the White House after the meeting to sign a critical mineral deal descended into chaos

US President accuses Ukrainian leader of 'gambling with World War Three' in extraordinary clashes in Oval Office

Donald Trump's week of promising talks with foreign leaders came to a crushing close today after Volodymyr Zelensky was ejected from the White House - without a deal for Ukraine

US President accuses Ukrainian leader of 'gambling with World War Three' in angry clashes in Oval Office

President Donald Trump halted peace talks between Russia and Ukraine and kicked President Volodymyr Zelensky out of the White House after a blistering Oval Office shouting match

Press conference between US and Ukraine leaders cancelled and no minerals deal signed after angry scenes in White Housein AthensThe peaceful scenes in central Athens have now been eclipsed by the eruption of full scale clashes between rock-throwing youths and riot police. Continue reading...

Employees may again be asked to explain recent accomplishments, AP reports, days after Musk argued the aim was to ‘pulse check’ US governmentUS aid cuts have forced the UN children’s agency Unicef to suspend or scale back many programmes in Lebanon, with more than half of children under the age of two experiencing severe food poverty in the country’s east, a Unicef official said on Friday.“We have been forced to suspend or cut back or drastically reduce many of our programmes and that includes nutrition programmes,” Unicef’s deputy representative in Lebanon, Ettie Higgins, told reporters in Geneva via video link from Beirut, Reuters reports. Continue reading...

The Ukrainian president was the subject of a dressing down from the US President in astonishing scenes in the White House.

A cold reality hit us in Washington. Zelenskyy was being forced to buy hope of survival by people who have no care for our freedomIt’s warming up in Kyiv. The temperature has risen from -5C to 4C. Sometimes, the sun peeps through breaks in the clouds, but Kyivites are not much cheered by the sunshine. They are not watching for signs of spring as they usually do at this time of year. The atmosphere in the city and in the country as a whole has been one of nervous expectation. This was not an expectation of an end to military action or the signing of a peace treaty with Russia – nothing so specific. Indeed, it was not at all clear what we were waiting for, but it was something connected with Donald Trump and the change in US policy towards Ukraine.Clarity emerged at today’s macabre theatre at the White House: handshakes, a thumbs up and some fist pumps from the US president, before Trump sat side by side with Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss a minerals-for-war-support deal and to humili...

BBC newsreader Clive Myrie appeared shocked on Friday as he reacted to US president Donald Trump, vice president JD Vance and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky engaging in a heated exchange over Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine.

Volodymyr Zelensky has been turfed out of the White House after a tense meeting with Donald Trump as the US President said the Ukrainian President is 'not ready for peace'

Meeting between US president and Ukrainian leader degenerated into shouting match before being cut shortTrump-Zelenskyy meeting – latest updatesDonald Trump has warned Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the US could cut off military aid and said that Ukraine was “gambling with world war three” in a disastrous White House summit that led to the US president cutting short talks and excoriating his Ukrainian counterpart as not being ready for peace.The US president received the Ukrainian president on Friday to discuss a controversial mineral resources deal that Trump has said is the first step toward a ceasefire agreement that he is seeking to broker between Russia and Ukraine. Continue reading...

Here MailOnline takes a look at the most explosive quotes from the meeting between the two leaders in the Oval Office this afternoon.

US president says he is ‘for both Ukraine and Russia’ and tells Zelenskyy he has ‘to be grateful’in AthensThe peaceful scenes in central Athens have now been eclipsed by the eruption of full scale clashes between rock-throwing youths and riot police. Continue reading...

 A reporter from the Russian news agency TASS snuck into the Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Volodymyr Zelensky is at the White House to sign the US mineral deal but the meeting descended into chaos

Donald Trump and JD Vance shouted over Volodymyr Zelensky as a critical meeting on Ukraine erupted into a shouting match in the Oval Office on Friday, 28 February.

Donald Trump greeted Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday, 28 February, before Ukraine’s president signs a critical minerals deal in an effort to regain US backing against Russia’s invasion.

Donald Trump greeted Volodymyr Zelensky by complimenting his outfit as the Ukrainian president arrived for talks at the White House on Friday, 28 February.

Donald Trump greeted Volodymyr Zelensky by complimenting his outfit as the Ukrainian president arrived for talks at the White House on Friday, 28 February.

US president says he is in the ‘middle’ of negotiations and says Europe and Nato need to spend more on defencein AthensThe peaceful scenes in central Athens have now been eclipsed by the eruption of full scale clashes between rock-throwing youths and riot police. Continue reading...

Donald Trump greeted Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday, 28 February, before Ukraine’s president signs a critical minerals deal in an effort to regain US backing against Russia’s invasion.

Watch live as Donald Trump is expected to greet Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday, 28 February, before Ukraine’s president signs a critical minerals deal in an effort to regain US backing against Russia’s invasion.

Appointment of Alexander Darchiev is latest sign of thaw in US-Russian relationsin AthensThe peaceful scenes in central Athens have now been eclipsed by the eruption of full scale clashes between rock-throwing youths and riot police. Continue reading...

Macron blamed US-EU row on ‘misunderstandings’ on the part of the US administrationin AthensThe peaceful scenes in central Athens have now been eclipsed by the eruption of full scale clashes between rock-throwing youths and riot police. Continue reading...

President wants radical overhaul of state department, including fewer diplomats and embassies, Politico reports; Noaa expects more cuts after hundreds firedUS aid cuts have forced the UN children’s agency Unicef to suspend or scale back many programmes in Lebanon, with more than half of children under the age of two experiencing severe food poverty in the country’s east, a Unicef official said on Friday.“We have been forced to suspend or cut back or drastically reduce many of our programmes and that includes nutrition programmes,” Unicef’s deputy representative in Lebanon, Ettie Higgins, told reporters in Geneva via video link from Beirut, Reuters reports. Continue reading...

Ruling called victory for Americans ‘illegally fired from their jobs’, while anonymous official tells NBC Kennedy has done nothing about outbreakUS aid cuts have forced the UN children’s agency Unicef to suspend or scale back many programmes in Lebanon, with more than half of children under the age of two experiencing severe food poverty in the country’s east, a Unicef official said on Friday.“We have been forced to suspend or cut back or drastically reduce many of our programmes and that includes nutrition programmes,” Unicef’s deputy representative in Lebanon, Ettie Higgins, told reporters in Geneva via video link from Beirut, Reuters reports. Continue reading...