Sir Keir Starmer and other leaders had pushed back against the US-drafted plan.

Talks with Ukraine on the US-drafted peace plan yielded “tremendous” progress, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said as conversations ended for the day.

He said the US wanted to end the war “soon” but suggested Washington was flexible with its timeline rather than sticking to the Thursday deadline President Donald Trump had mentioned before.

Sir Keir Starmer and other leaders had pushed back against the US-drafted plan, raising concerns about proposals to make Kyiv limit its armed forces and give up territory and its path to Nato membership.

They called Washington’s plan “a basis” that required further work in a joint statement on Saturday after talks at the G20 in South Africa.

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