13 h. ago Kremlin slams Keir Starmer's 'insolent' plan to send peacekeepers to Ukraine in chilling warning

Vladimir Putin’s foreign minister said Keir Starmer’s plan for a peace deal in the Ukraine war is 'insolent' - and a continuation of 'pitting the Kyiv regime against us'

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27 h. ago More governments pledge to join U.K. and France in sending peacekeepers to Ukraine

More governments pledge to join U.K. and France in sending peacekeepers to Ukraine  POLITICO Europe

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1 week ago Revealed: Ukraine peacekeeping plan Sir Keir Starmer will present to Donald Trump

Prime Minister to propose sending 30,000 troops to police Ukraine as part of peacekeeping efforts

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1 week ago Russia warns it will not accept European peacekeeping troops in Ukraine at truce talks with the US

The comments came after Starmer said that he was ready to send troops to Ukraine as a guarantee of security, while urging a 'backstop' security commitment from the US

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1 week ago Nigel Farage says Tories ‘not on the right in any measurable way’ and calls Labour government ‘miserable’ – UK politics live

Leader of Reform UK criticises Conservatives and ‘declinist’ Labour government in new attacksGood morning, defence secretary John Healey has finished speaking, so I can take a quick pause and actually welcome you to our rolling coverage of UK politics for Tuesday. Here are the headlines Defence secretary John Healey has announced what he described as the most significant defence reform for 50 years, in which reporting lines and budgets will be simplified, and a new “quad” of four senior leaders reporting directly to the minister appointedHealy said there were extraordinary people in the UK’s defence forces, but too often they were hampered by process, and there was a lack of direct accountability. He suggested his changes might bring about up to £10bn in savings to the taxpayer over the next decadeTransport secretary Heidi Alexander has said the UK should not rule out sending troops to Ukraine as part of any future peacekeeping forceThe rate of UK unemployment remained unchanged at ...

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1 week ago Peacekeeping in Ukraine would require every last drop of our depleted resources. We would have NO capability left: DANIEL HANNAN

Sir Keir Starmer's plans to send British peacekeepers to Ukraine raise two questions. First, do we have the military capacity and the means to pay for it? Second, what exactly would we aim to achieve?

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1 week ago MPs 'likely to get a vote' on sending British troops to Ukraine as peacekeepers to deter future Putin attacks

Sir Keir Starmer takes lead in pledging to deploy UK forces to Ukraine

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1 week ago Europe CAN'T go it alone on Ukraine peacekeeping without US backing, minister admits

Heidi Alexander, the Transport Secretary, said it was 'absolutely essential that any security guarantee is done in partnership with the US'.

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1 week ago Peacekeeping in Ukraine would require every last drop of our depleted resources. We would have NO capability left, DANIEL HANNAN writes

DANIEL HANNAN: Sir Keir Starmer 's announcement that he plans to send British peacekeepers to Ukraine raises two immediate questions.

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2 w. ago London markets tick up as Starmer 'ready' to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine

London markets tick up as Starmer 'ready' to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine  Yahoo Finance UK

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2 w. ago Trump's deal with the devil? As Starmer vows to send British peacekeepers to Ukraine, what a truce could look like

Decades-long policy of US-Europe cooperation was brought to a swift end last week when Donald Trump shared a lengthy phone call with Vladimir Putin to kick off peace talks over the Ukraine war

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2 w. ago Do you agree with sending UK peacekeeping troops to Ukraine? Take our poll and have your say

Keir Starmer wants to put British boots on Ukrainian ground to protect peace - but do you think the UK should be getting so involved? And do we really have the manpower to do so?

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2 w. ago 'Britain cannot win any wars. But only a lasting peace is worth winning'

Keir Starmer's decision to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine is a moral and political win, says Fleet Street Fox. The risk is whether Our Boys are in the way when Putin moves again

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2 w. ago FTSE 100 LIVE: London markets tick up as Starmer 'ready' to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine

FTSE 100 LIVE: London markets tick up as Starmer 'ready' to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine  Yahoo Finance UK

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2 w. ago Starmer warned of ‘considerable cost’ of sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine

Lord Richard Dannatt said Britain does not have the forces or equipment ‘to put a large force on to the ground for an extended period of time’.

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2 w. ago Keir Starmer 'ready' to put troops into Ukraine if peace deal reached, as leaders meet for crisis talks

Prime Minister says UK is ‘ready and willing’ to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine if a deal is reached to end conflict, as European leaders gather for emergency talks in Paris

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