The prime minister said it will help ensure the country is "never again vulnerable to the kind of brutality inflicted on it by Russia".

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has been a “monumental strategic failure”, Sir Keir Starmer said as he travelled to the country to sign a new long-term partnership deal with Volodymyr Zelensky.The Prime Minister was greeted at Kyiv railway station by the UK’s ambassador to Ukraine Martin Harris and Ukraine’s envoy to London,

Keir Starmer has made a surprise visit to Ukraine where he will sign a landmark 100-year partnership between Britain and the wartorn nation. The Prime Minister will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as they agree the historic tie-up.

Keir Starmer will travel to Ukraine in the coming weeks to discuss the possibility of deploying an international peacekeeping force there after the conflict with Russia has ended, his first visit to the war-torn nation since becoming UK prime minister half a year ago.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Ukraine to sign a new 100-year partnership to deepen security ties, the prime minister's office said in a statement on Thursday.

Sir Keir Starmer is travelling to Kyiv to sign what Downing Street is calling a "landmark 100-year partnership" with Ukraine. The pact would formalise economic and military support already pledged to the country,