Sir Keir has continually warned of Russian’s threat to global stability following its invasion of Ukraine.On Thursday, defence secretary John Healey met up with his US counterpart Pete Hegseth in Washington to discuss ending the war amid a pause on military aid and intelligence sharing from the US.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday dismissed as "garbage" accusations that Washington had taken a pro-Russia stance, saying President Donald Trump was pursuing a peaceful end to Russia's three-year-old invasion of Ukraine.

The gas pipeline connecting Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea, Nord Stream 2, is on the brink of bankruptcy. The investment was massive, yet no gas ever flowed through it. According to various sources,

He made “buy American” a principle of the first order, going so far as to once return a new vehicle, made by one of the Big Three of course, when he discovered from reading the documents attached to the bill of sale that it had been assembled outside the United States.

Since his return to office in late January, U.S. President Donald Trump has made clear he wants to end the war in Ukraine as quickly as he can, irrespective of what that means for Ukrainians. Breaking with the West’s years-long isolation of Russian President Vladimir Putin,

The defense secretary’s instructions, which were given before President Trump’s blowup with the Ukrainian president, are apparently part of an effort to draw Russia into talks on the war.

Washington’s shift on the Ukraine war marks a major break with European allies and comes as the Trump administration aims to repair relations with Russia.

Ukraine has considerable leverage in upcoming negotiations with Russia—as long as the United States stands by Kyiv and adopts a negotiating strategy that creates real dilemmas for Moscow. U.S. support for Ukraine has been cast into doubt in recent weeks after a flurry of comments by Trump administration officials offering unilateral concessions to Moscow and criticizing Ukraine.