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The 2025 London Summit on Ukraine, officially entitled the Securing Our Future London Summit, 2 March 2025, was a meeting of international leaders in London on 2 March 2025, called by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to draft a peace plan for the Russian invasion of Ukraine to take to the United States.[1]
The summit followed the meeting of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in Washington on 28 February 2025 with United States President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.[2]
The objective of the meeting was to create a "coalition of the willing" in Europe that would be able to present a peace plan for Ukraine.[1] The stated aim of the initiative is to facilitate the peace negotiation attempts launched and mediated by the United States between Ukraine and Russia in February 2025, by helping to build up strong enough security guarantees for Ukraine to ensure that a potential reached ceasefire or peace deal would be lasting.[3] Besides serving the role as building up a potential peacekeeping force, the coalition have also expressed readiness to increase military support for Ukraine and strengthen economic sanctions against Russia, in the event that the ongoing negotiations for a "comprehensive ceasefire" or "peace deal" would fail. As of 20 March 2025, the exact shape and function of the coalition was described as still being subject to ongoing planning, but moved into an "operational phase".[4][5]
According to the French newspaper Le Monde, the participants included, along with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a number of European and international leaders.[6][7][8]
The following people also attended the meeting:[8]
Additionally, Starmer spoke to President Alar Karis of Estonia, Prime Minister Evika Siliņa of Latvia and President Gitanas Nausėda of Lithuania by telephone prior to the meeting commencing.[9]
In a press conference that followed the London summit, Starmer outlined four key outcomes:
As part of the announcement, Starmer committed £1.6 billion (€1.94 billion) in UK export finances to purchase more than 5,000 air defense missiles for Ukraine.[10] The missiles will be manufactured in Belfast in Northern Ireland.[10] This complemented a previously announced £2.2 billion (€2.42 billion) loan for military aid to Ukraine backed by frozen Russian assets.[11][12]
Starmer emphasized that European nations would need to take primary responsibility for the initiative and "do the heavy lifting"[10] and that the agreement would require US backing and Russian involvement. He indicated that the United Kingdom would back its security commitments with "boots on the ground, and planes in the air,"[10] regarding the possibility of UK and EU direct military presence in Ukraine to carry out a peace enforcement operation.
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen emphasized the "urgent need to re-arm Europe,"[13] to support such security guarantees after "a long time of underinvestment".[13] She suggested that the European Union might need to ease its fiscal rules regarding national debt to facilitate increased defense spending by member states. On 4 March 2025, Von der Leyen announced the EU's €800 billion ($840 billion) defence investment plan "ReArm Europe".[14][15]
Secretary General of NATO Mark Rutte echoed this sentiment, noting that the meeting demonstrated European nations "stepping up" to ensure Ukraine has the resources necessary to "stay in the fight as long as it has to continue".[16]
Right after the meeting, Finland's president Stubb said that Norway and Finland are working in support of the drafting of the UK-France-Ukraine peace plan. In addition, he said that the role of the countries that are Russia's neighbours will be different from providing peacekeeping troops.[17]
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