UK’s Starmer To Urge Biden To Release $20 Billion for Ukraine, Back Long-Range Strikes in Russia

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is planning to urge President Biden to release $20 billion for Ukraine and back long-range strikes in Russian territory before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated on January 20, The Telegraph has reported.

The $20 billion Starmer wants Biden to release is the US’s share of a $50 billion Group of 7 loan that will be provided to Ukraine and paid back with frozen Russian central bank assets, a step that will mark a significant escalation in the Western economic war against Moscow.

Starmer is looking to hold a face-to-face meeting with President Biden next week at the Group of 20 summit in Brazil. He is expected to ask Biden to give Ukraine permission to use British-provided Storm Shadow missiles to launch long-range strikes inside Russia, a step Russian President Vladimir Putin has made clear would risk nuclear war.