Liz Truss warned leaders, including Emmanuel Macron, that the West could not “sell out” Ukraine for a “quick end” to the war, and called on G7 and NATO countries for more weapons and funding to commit the country.
In a joint article for The Telegraph with Dmytro Kuleba, her Ukrainian counterpart, Foreign Minister Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, said he would “only be serious about negotiations once the Ukrainian people repulsed his troops”.
The two added: “The Ukrainian people do not have the luxury of feeling tired. The rest of the free world can not either.”
Mr Macron, who has been talking about spending 100 hours by telephone with Putin since December, is accused of wanting Ukraine to make concessions to secure a peace deal – although the Elysee Palace insists that any agreement Ukraine’s sovereignty must respect.
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