UK PM updates Trump on efforts of 'coalition of the willing' to support Ukraine

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has updated U.S. President Donald Trump connected talks betwixt the 'coalition of the willing' to some fortify Ukraine and supply enactment successful the lawsuit of bid woody with Russia, his spokesperson said connected Tuesday.

A spokesperson for Starmer said the telephone happened precocious connected Monday.

"The premier curate updated the president connected his conjugation of the consenting telephone ... He reiterated that each indispensable enactment unneurotic to enactment Ukraine successful the strongest imaginable presumption to unafraid a conscionable and lasting peace," the spokesperson said.

He told reporters the 2 besides discussed the travel of Britain's concern curate to Washington connected Tuesday to marque advancement connected securing a wider economical woody and U.S. strikes against Houthi targets astatine the weekend, which Britain supported with regular air-to-air refuelling.

(Reporting by Andrew MacAskill, penning by Elizabeth Piper; editing by William James)