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Starmer, Macron pledge to develop ceasefire plan for Ukraine, but will the US bite?

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(From left) Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and France's President Emmanuel Macron meet after a summit at Lancaster House.

(From left) Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and France's President Emmanuel Macron meet after a summit at Lancaster House.

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Leaders of Europe’s major governments have agreed to launch a ceasefire plan for Ukraine in a bid to reverse what is rapidly becoming the most profound rift between their continent and the US since World War II.

At the end of a summit on

March 2

in London,

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to develop a plan to end the Ukraine bloodshed and present it to Washington.

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