He added: “Peace agreements fail, in my view, predominantly because there aren’t sufficiently robust security guarantees behind them – which is why the French president and I set up the coalition of the willing … to put in place guarantees from the coalition-of-the-willing countries in accordance with and alongside the US.” In a separate speech on Monday, Blaise Metreweli, the head of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, said Vladimir Putin was “dragging out negotiations” over Ukraine, in keeping with the spy agency’s long-standing assessment that the Russian leader was not serious about ending the war, except on very favourable terms to the Kremlin. Starmer was speaking to parliament’s liaison committee hours before he was due to board a flight to Berlin for dinner with the leaders of eight European countries, as well as those of the European Commission, the EU Council and Nato.
Author: The Guardian
Published at: 2025-12-15 23:03:19
Still want to read the full version? Full article
