Lammy and Vance to hold meeting to discuss US-brokered Ukraine peace plan

Ukrainian and European partners to join UK foreign secretary and US vice-president at Chevening for talksThe UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, and the US vice-president, JD Vance, will hold a meeting with Ukrainian and European partners in Britain on Saturday to discuss the drive for peace in Ukraine, a Downing Street spokesperson has said.The summit comes ahead of a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin set for next Friday in Alaska. In a comment that that was met with pushback from Kyiv, the US president said that an end to the war must involve “some swapping of territories”. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stressed early on Saturday that “Ukrainians will not give their land to occupiers”. Continue reading...

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