# 2025 London Summit on Ukraine

The 2025 London Summit on Ukraine, officially entitled the Securing Our Future London Summit, 2 March 2025, was a meeting of international leaders in London on 2 March 2025, called by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to draft a peace plan for the Russian invasion of Ukraine to take to the United States.
The summit followed the meeting of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in Washington on 28 February 2025 with President Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

## Aim

The objective of the meeting was to create a "coalition of the willing" in Europe that would be able to present a peace plan for Ukraine.

## Participants

According to the French newspaper Le Monde, the participants included, along with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a number of European and international leaders.
| Country | Represented by | Title |
| Canada | Justin Trudeau | Prime Minister |
| Czech Republic | Petr Fiala | Prime Minister |
| Denmark | Mette Frederiksen | Prime Minister |
| Finland | Alexander Stubb | President |
| France | Emmanuel Macron | President |
| Germany | Olaf Scholz | Chancellor |
| Italy | Giorgia Meloni | Prime Minister |
| Netherlands | Dick Schoof | Prime Minister |
| Norway | Jonas Gahr Støre | Prime Minister |
| Poland | Donald Tusk | Prime Minister |
| Romania | Ilie Bolojan | Interim President |
| Spain | Pedro Sánchez | Prime Minister |
| Sweden | Ulf Kristersson | Prime Minister |
| Turkey | Hakan Fidan | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Ukraine | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | President |
| United Kingdom | Keir Starmer (host) | Prime Minister |
The following people also attended the meeting:
| Organisation | Represented by | Title |
| European Union | Antonio Costa Ursula von der Leyen | President of the European Council President of the European Commission |
| NATO | Mark Rutte | Secretary general of NATO |
Additionally, Starmer spoke to President Alar Karis of Estonia, Prime Minister Evika Siliņa of Latvia and President Gitanas Nausėda of Lithuania by telephone prior to the meeting commencing.

## Outcomes
### Four point-plan

In a press conference that followed the London summit, Starmer outlined four key outcomes:
* Commitment to maintaining the flow of military aid to Ukraine while increasing economic pressure on Russia through sanctions and other measures
* Affirming that any lasting peace agreement must ensure the sovereignty and security of Ukraine, with Ukraine being present at all peace negotiations
* Pledging to enhance Ukraine's defensive military capabilities following any peace deal to deter potential future invasions
* Development of a "coalition of the willing" consisting of multiple nations prepared to defend the terms of any peace agreement and guarantee Ukraine's security afterward

### Commitments

As part of the announcement, Starmer committed £1.6 billion (€1.94 billion) in UK export finances to purchase more than 5,000 air defense missiles for Ukraine. The missiles will be manufactured in Belfast in Northern Ireland. This complemented a previously announced £2.2 billion (€2.42 billion) loan for military aid to Ukraine backed by frozen Russian assets.
Starmer emphasized that European nations would need to take primary responsibility for the initiative and "do the heavy lifting" and that the agreement would require US backing and Russian involvement. He indicated that the United Kingdom would back its security commitments with "boots on the ground, and planes in the air," regarding the possibility of UK and EU direct military presence in Ukraine to carry out a peace enforcement operation.
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen emphasized the "urgent need to re-arm Europe," to support such security guarantees after "a long time of underinvestment". She suggested that the European Union might need to ease its fiscal rules regarding national debt to facilitate increased defense spending by member states. On 4 March 2025, Von der Leyen announced the EU's €800 billion ($840 billion) defence investment plan "ReArm Europe".
Secretary General of NATO Mark Rutte echoed this sentiment, noting that the meeting demonstrated European nations "stepping up" to ensure Ukraine has the resources necessary to "stay in the fight as long as it has to continue".
Right after the meeting, Finland's president Stubb said that Norway and Finland are working in support of the drafting of the UK-France-Ukraine peace plan. In addition, he said that the role of the countries that are Russia's neighbours will be different from providing peacekeeping troops.