Eur not alone

Coalition of Willing joins Zelensky in White House ceasefire crusade

- BY ASHLEY COWBURN

KEIR Starmer will join European leaders to take a united stand with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky during negotiations with Donald Trump at the White House today.

The Prime Minister will fly to Washington, DC, to stand alongside the Ukrainian leader to discuss an end to Russia's bloody invasion.

German chancellor Friedrich Merz, French president Emmanuel Macron, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, and Finnish president Alexander Stubb are also set to flank Zelensky.

They will be joined by Mark Rutte, the Nato general secretary, and the European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, who said she was joining "at the request of President Zelensky". It follows Trump and Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin's summit in Alaska on Friday where no deal was reached on a ceasefire in the three-and-a-half-year conflict in Ukraine.

European leaders will be hoping to swerve a repeat of explosive scenes in the Oval Office in February when Trump and vice president JD Vance tried to belittle Zelensky.