Ukraine-Russia war latest: Starmer joins world leaders in Kyiv to push Putin to agree 30-day ceasefire
World leaders arrive in Kyiv ahead of talks
Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Donald Tusk and Friedrich Mertz have arrived in Kyiv in a joint show of support for Ukraine.
The leaders arrived together by train and were then greeted by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena Zelenska. The leaders then paid their respects to the victims of war at the Memorial for the Fallen at the Independence Square in Kyiv.
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