European leaders sought to assemble a “coalition of the willing” to secure Ukraine after any US-brokered ceasefire in the country. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who hosted the talks, said Britain and France and “one or two others” would work with Ukraine on a “plan to stop the fighting.”

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