The King is said to have been a vital influence on Donald Trump’s dramatic U-turn on his attitudes towards the war in Ukraine.
This week, Mr Trump went from urging Kyiv to make territorial concessions to insisting it can win back all of the territory captured by Russia since 2022.
President Zelensky’s chief of staff said the US President’s state visit to the UK played a key role in his change of position.
“I’d like to mention that it was a great visit of President Trump to the United Kingdom, and I know the position of His Majesty, the position of Prime Minister Starmer and the people whom President Trump met… it was very important,” Andriy Yermak said.
The change in stance comes as Nato countries scrambled more fighter jets after Russian planes neared Latvian airspace on Thursday, the latest in a string of apparent provocations by Moscow.
The jets were “flying close to Nato airspace, not complying with international flight safety regulations,” the command said. They did not say that Nato airspace had been encroached.
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