He was greeted by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer with a warm hug and handshake outside No10, where he is due to become the first foreign leader to address Cabinet in person since 1997.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky was cleared to use UK-supplied cruise missiles to hit targets inside Russia today as he arrived at No10 for talks about the war against Vladimir Putin.
Earlier John Healey had said that the UK would continue to fund weapons for Ukraine until the end of the decade at least, and gave tacit approval for Storm Shadow cruise missiles to be used to hit targets within Russia itself. Asked whether Mr Zelensky can hit where Russian missiles are coming from, the Cabinet minister said 'these are complex questions' and that he would not 'discuss the details of those sorts of things in public'.
In a bilateral meeting the Prime Minister said the UK is 'united in our Parliament' in supporting Kyiv for as long as possible. The Ukrainian president will be the first official visitor to Downing Street under Sir Keir's premiership, and the first foreign leader to address the Cabinet in person since US president Bill Clinton in 1997.He is expected to brief ministers about the situation in Ukraine and the need to expand Europe's defence industrial base, as well as agreeing a £3.5 billion defence export finance deal with Sir Keir.
President Zelensky's visit to Downing Street follows the European Political Community summit at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, on Thursday, at which 44 countries and the EU agreed to target Russia's 'shadow fleet' of tankers seeking to evade sanctions on Russian oil.
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