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Sir Keir Starmer is expected to urge allies to supply Ukraine with more advanced missile systems to strike Russian targets during talks in London on this Friday.

Sir Keir is set to welcome President Zelensky alongside referred to as "alliance of supportive nations", comprising more than 20 of Ukraine's allies who have committed to provide Ukraine security guarantees once a ceasefire is brokered.

The Ukrainian leader has been appealing for an extended period for additional advanced missile technology from the West, a step that the Russian government has cautions would worsen the war.

The Ukrainian president is journeying from the EU capital, where he held talks with EU leaders on the previous day requesting financial support.

"The single figure participating in current hostilities who declines to end the war is the Russian leader," Sir Keir said.

The Prime Minister will also announce that one hundred additional anti-aircraft missiles will be supplied to Ukrainian forces earlier than planned, as outlined in a £1.6bn deal reached between the United Kingdom and Ukraine in March.

International Support

The Ukrainian president comes after important international achievements this week: the US President's move to finally apply new measures against the Russian government, and European countries deciding to finance a Ukrainian budget hole.

The Prime Minister is seeking to sustain the forward movement by escalating the pressure on Russia to negotiate an end to the conflict.

Conference Delegates

• NATO leader the Secretary General
• Copenhagen's head the Danish PM
• Holland's Schoof
• Further attendees like French President Emmanuel Macron will attend online

Sir Keir will encourage leaders to expand the supply of extended-range systems following a productive operation on a chemical plant in the Bryansk region, the Russian Federation, using British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles.

"Furthermore, his brutal attacks on young children in a nursery in recent days make that perfectly obvious," he continued.

Two children were part of at least seven lost in a wave of Moscow's attacks on Ukrainian territory, which struck a preschool facility in the major urban center Kharkiv.

Economic Talks

Britain's leader will consult Western allies on how to remove Russia's petroleum resources out of worldwide commerce.

Delegates will also consider using frozen Russian assets to supply Kyiv with monetary support, while the initiative experienced insufficient agreement and regulatory obstacles at the EU conference on the previous day.

European nations declined to consenting a plan to use approximately €140 billion in frozen Russian assets to monetarily assist the Ukrainian economy.

Nonetheless, the participants consented to help support Kyiv's "financial needs" for the next two years.

America furthermore announced measures on Wednesday against Russia's two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, as element of actions to increase financial pressure on Russia to commence hostility discussions.

The Russian government initiated its full-scale invasion of the country in early 2022. Russian troops at this time controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory, encompassing the Crimean peninsula Moscow seized in 2014.