British Prime Minister Andy Burnham will receive Volodymyr Zelensky on Downing Street in a demonstration of support for the Ukrainian President, criticized by Donald Trump, announced the British Government.
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13/10/2026
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O british Prime Minister Andy Burnham will receive Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday on Downing Street in a demonstration of support for the Ukrainian President, criticized by Donald Trump, announced the British Government.
At the meeting, the Labour leader will promise to “accelerate the delivery of essential air defense missiles” and ask the “international partners to strengthen sanctions against Russia and increase pressure on [Vladimir] Putin”, Russian President, said Downing Street in a statement.
After negotiating with Putin the lifting of sanctions on Russian fuels, on Sunday the US President Donald Trump announced an alleged agreement between Ukraine and Russia for a 60-day “power-fire-in” between the two parties.
However, Zelensky said he was unaware of this pact and the Kremlin avoided commenting on it, and the spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, said only that “contacts on this matter continue”.
“ They reached an agreement because I said they reached an agreement”, Trump insisted on Monday.
Today, the Ukrainian Head of State has stated that his country has not received any prior warning from its partners about the five Russian ballistic missiles that hit civilian infrastructure in the capital, Kyiv, in this context of increased tensions with the US counterpart.
Zelensky did not specify what partners he was referring to, characterized the attack as “particularly vile” and stressed that receiving secret information from partners about such attacks “helps save lives” and is “one of the most important things.”.
“ This is precisely what helps to prevent people from being killed, when there is a prior warning about ballistic missiles,” wrote Ukrainian social network leader X.
Kyiv continues to rely heavily on Washington for military assistance, including US-made Patriot missile defense systems and secret information on impending Russian attacks.
The United States has the ability to immediately detect Russian ballistic missile launches, and US authorities have already notified Ukraine, allowing it to issue missile alerts to the population and use air defenses against approaching missiles.
As of tonight, Zelensky reported that the Kyiv capital was again attacked by a Russian ballistic missile, and once again “without prior partners,” of which the United States is the most relevant.
The main target of the attack, Zelensky said on the X, were the energy infrastructure, specifically the Thermoelectric Power Plant-4, one of the main of the Ukrainian capital, and “unfortunately” the attack was right, and also a residential building was damaged.
“ These missiles were detected by our system almost on the way to Kyiv,” Zelensky said.
“According to our intelligence service data, the Russians are preparing new ballistic missile launches. The facts show that the Russians do not consider it necessary to comply with what the President of the United States said. Ukraine supported the ceasefire in energy infrastructure. Russia is targeting another power station and the lives of our population,” he said.

