The 2025 London Summit on Ukraine, officially entitled the Securing Our Future London Summit, 2 March 2025, was a meeting of international leaders in

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on 2 March 2025, called by British

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to draft a peace plan for the

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to take to the United States. The summit followed the

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at the

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on 28 February 2025 with

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and

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Aim

The objective of the meeting was to create a "

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" in Europe that would be able to present a peace plan for Ukraine. The stated aim of the initiative is to facilitate the peace negotiation attempts launched and mediated by the

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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. 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".

Participants

According to the French newspaper ''

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'', the participants included, along with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a number of European and international leaders. The following people also attended the meeting: Additionally, Starmer spoke to President

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, Prime Minister

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and President

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by telephone prior to the meeting commencing.

Outcomes

Four point-plan

In a press conference that followed the London summit, Starmer outlined four key outcomes: # Commitment to maintaining the flow of military aid to Ukraine while increasing economic pressure on Russia through sanctions and other measures # Affirming that any lasting peace agreement must ensure the sovereignty and security of Ukraine, with Ukraine being present at all peace negotiations # Pledging to enhance Ukraine's defensive military capabilities following any peace deal to deter potential future invasions # Development of a "

" consisting of multiple nations prepared to defend the terms of any peace agreement and guarantee Ukraine's security afterward

Commitments

As part of the announcement, Starmer committed £1.6 billion () in UK export finances to purchase more than 5,000 air defense missiles for Ukraine. The missiles will be manufactured in

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in Northern Ireland. This complemented a previously announced £2.2 billion () loan for military aid to Ukraine backed by frozen Russian assets. Starmer emphasized that European nations would need to take primary responsibility for the initiative and "do the heavy lifting" 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," regarding the possibility of UK and EU direct military presence in Ukraine to carry out a peace enforcement operation.

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emphasized the "urgent need to re-arm Europe," to support such security guarantees after "a long time of underinvestment". She suggested that the European Union might need to ease its fiscal rules regarding

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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 "

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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". 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.

References

External links

Chair's statement
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Pre-summit statement
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Post-summit comments
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