Zelenskyy to visit London for talks before expected Trump-Putin summit

Ukrainian president will seek to win security guarantees at coalition of the willing' meeting before any US-Russia talks

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Ukraine's president, Volodmyr Zelenskyy, will travel to London on Friday for a meeting of the coalition of the willing" before an expected summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Hungary, and amid mounting European disquiet over Ukraine's exclusion from the Budapest meeting.

Posting on social media, Zelenskyy said the aim of the London visit would be to win security guarantees for Kyiv, adding there would be many meetings and negotiations in Europe" this week.