Ukraine’s Zelensky meets UK’s King Charles III

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky met with the UK’s King Charles III on Sunday, shortly after taking part in key defense talks with European leaders, Buckingham Palace said.

The king “received the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky,” at his Sandringham House Estate in east England, said the statement, with the leader having flown by helicopter from London after talks ended.

European leaders closed ranks in support of Kyiv at a London summit, where they pledged to spend more on security and assemble a coalition to defend any truce in Ukraine.

And French President Emmanuel Macron, flying back from the summit, said in a newspaper interview that France and Britain were proposing a one-month truce.

Bringing together 18 allies, the talks came just two days after US President Donald Trump berated Zelensky at a live White House news conference.

And UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that Britain, France “and others” would work with Ukraine on a plan to stop the fighting, which they would then put to Washington.