Britain sought to keep Europe in the loop ahead of a U.S.-Russia summit on Ukraine with a highly publicized meeting between Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelensky.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in London. LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to London on Thursday, a day before a critical U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska.

Friedrich Merz, the German Chancellor, said the Europeans ‘are doing everything to set the course for this [Alaska] meeting in the right direction’. When announcing his intention to meet with Putin last week, Trump also mooted a potential subsequent trilateral meeting where Zelensky would join them.