Sir Keir Starmer will host talks with the coalition of the willing on the Ukraine peace plan after hailing “significant progress” but acknowledging there was “more work to do” to end Russia’s war.

Downing Street said efforts over the weekend between the US and Kyiv to broker a truce with Moscow marked a “major step” but conceded there were “outstanding issues” to be resolved.

The Prime Minister and other western leaders had earlier pushed back against an original peace proposal, raising concerns about the prospect of a cap on Ukraine’s armed forces and land being ceded to Russia.

But following a weekend of intensive talks in Geneva, US secretary of state Marco Rubio said “tremendous” progress had been made, though details of any changes to the initial draft have not yet been mad

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