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The war in Ukraine will be a focal point of the meeting between the US president and UK prime minister in Washington later.

Edited by Emily Atkinson in London and Brandon Livesay in New York, with Myroslava Petsa and Bernd Debusmann Jr reporting from the White House Zelensky says there should be "no compromises" with Vladimir Putin - but Trump says Kyiv will have to make concessions to reach a peace deal with Russia It was an extraordinary couple of hours.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will visit the White House on Thursday to try and persuade President Donald Trump to maintain support for Ukraine as officials push to end the war. His visit follows French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron's trip to see the president Monday.

Donald Trump took a softer tone on Ukraine truce talks Thursday as he hosted British Prime Minister Keir Starmer -- but refused to give any firm commitments on the US

Prime Minister Keir Starmer wore a broad smile aboard the plane home from Washington. He landed back in Britain on Friday with the satisfaction of a tricky mission not quite accomplished, but off to a flying start.

Sir Keir Starmer’s intervention came after a terse exchange in the White House’s Oval Office between Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump hosted a meeting at the White House with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House on Thursday followed by a joint news conference. Trump told reporters that Starmer had “earned whatever they pay him” in working to convince Trump not to place tariffs on the United Kingdom,

Keir Starmer supports Trump's mineral deal with Ukraine after US meeting Source: NBC News "He doesn't hate immigrants; he just hates poor immigrants."

Starmer seems to have come away with the chance at avoiding tariffs by recognising the constraints of the reality on the ground in Washington.