‘Aggressor’ Putin does not want to reach a deal, Sir Keir Starmer says

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Vladimir Putin does not want to reach a deal over the Ukraine war, Sir Keir Starmer has said after five hours of talks with US envoys at the Kremlin ended with no breakthrough.The Prime Minister said the UK would continue work to “put pressure on in every conceivable way”, including by “doing as much damage to the Russian economy as we can” through sanctions.

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00:00last week on the attempts to get a lasting peace. We all know that Putin is the aggressor here. We

00:10all know that Putin is dragging his feet, not wanting to come to the table, not wanting to

00:15reach an agreement. We have to continue to put pressure on in every conceivable way. That is in

00:20supporting Ukraine with capability and resource, but also ensuring that our sanctions, acting with

00:27allies, do as much damage to the economy in Russia and pressure that we can put on. We will continue

00:33to do so, but he is absolutely right to raise it, and I thank him for doing so.

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