Vladimir Putin cannot be trusted, Keir Starmer has warned Donald Trump ahead of his meeting with the Russian president on Friday.

The US President said on Monday he would be telling his Russian counterpart “you gotta end this war [in Ukraine]” during the crunch negotiations on Friday.

Ahead of the talks, No 10 warned “ you’d never trust President Putin ”, while stressing that Ukraine must have the final say on any peace proposal.

During a press conference on Monday, Trump said he would be speaking to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders ahead of his Friday summit with Putin to “get everyone’s ideas” and go into the meeting “fully loaded”.

The i Paper understands that there is likely to be a joint call between Trump, Starmer and European leaders, which coul

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