Poland seeks British help to protect Ukraine after Trump win - The Times

Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, will hold talks with the leaders of Britain, France and Nato over concerns about the impact of the US election.

Poland wants to build an alliance with Britain to prevent a sell-out of Ukraine by the West when Donald Trump enters the White House next year.

Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, is to hold talks “in the coming days” with Sir Keir Starmer, President Macron of France and Mark Rutte, the secretary-general of Nato, because of concerns about the impact of the US election on the war.

On Saturday Trump’s eldest son, ­Donald Jr, re-shared a video on Instagram of a forlorn-looking President Zelensky standing alongside Donald Trump, with the caption: “POV: You’re 38 days from losing your allowance.”

Trump was said to have spoken on the phone to President Putin on Thursday and urged him not to escalate the war in Ukraine, The Washington Post reported. However, this was strongly denied by the Kremlin on Monday.

“This is completely untrue. This is pure fiction, it’s just false information,” Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said. “There was no conversation.”

He added: “This is the most obvious example of the quality of the information that is being published now, sometimes even in fairly reputable publications.”

Trump had spoken to Zelensky last week and was said to have told him he would support Kyiv.

Trump has repeatedly questioned the level of American backing for Ukraine’s fight against the Russian invaders and boasted that he would get a peace deal “done in 24 hours”.

Britain, Poland and France are seen as key European players in preventing a new US administration from going behind Kyiv’s back to do a deal with Putin.

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