Wes Streeting has dismissed Vladimir Putin’s comments that Russia is “ready” for war with Europe as the “same old sabre-rattling”.

The Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper meanwhile said the Russian leader should “end the bluster” as she joined Nato foreign ministers for talks on Wednesday.

Mr Putin held talks for around five hours in Moscow with Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner.

The Kremlin called those talks, which ended late on Tuesday, “constructive”, but said they had not furthered the push towards peace in Ukraine.

Earlier, Mr Putin had accused Kyiv’s European allies of sabotaging the US-led efforts to end the war and rejected changes proposed by Ukraine and Europe to a US-backed draft peace plan as unacceptable.

He accused Europe of amendi

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