U.S. President Donald Trump will host meetings with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday and with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer jumped to the defense of Ukrainian President Volodymyr after U.S. President Donald Trump called him "a dictator without elections," who was using martial law to stay in power.

Sir Keir Starmer will meet with US President Donald Trump next week amid a split over Ukraine peace talks. No10 confirmed that the Prime Minister will go to Washington within days. The announcement came as senior US and Russian diplomats were heading to Saudi Arabia for talks on ending Vladimir Putin’s three-year war in Ukraine.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he had spoken with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer the day before and he agreed to meet with him, perhaps in the next few weeks.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is to tell Donald Trump there must be a role for European countries including the UK in any agreement to end the war in Ukraine, when he meets the US President in Washington next week.

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer as he arrives for a meeting with European leaders on Ukraine and European security at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France,

French President Macron and UK PM Keir Starmer invited to White House for Ukraine talks US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz announced the two key European leaders will have a seat at the negotiating table after EU leaders raised the alarm over Donald Trump’s handling of the war in Ukraine.