Western nations are scrambling to respond to the proposals on the sidelines of the South African meeting.

Sir Keir Starmer is meeting with allies of Ukraine at the Johannesburg G20 summit on Saturday to seek to “strengthen” a plan secretly drafted by the US to end the war with Russia.

Washington reportedly pressed Kyiv to accept the agreement which would see the invaded country make major concessions including giving up territory and cutting the size of its army.

Western nations are scrambling to respond to the proposals on the sidelines of the South African meeting shunned by Donald Trump.

The Prime Minister held 25-minute talks with France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Friedrich Merz, before the meeting was expanded to include a dozen G7 and G20 leaders including from Japan, Canada

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