He will join European leaders including France's president Emmanuel Macron, Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni and Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Keir Starmer will jet to Washington, DC, to stand side-by-side with the Ukrainian wartime leader and a host of European allies to discuss an end to Russia's bloody invasion

European leaders appear poised to join Mr Zelensky in a show of solidarity with the Ukrainian president, after his last encounter with his American counterpart in the Oval Office resulted in a diplomatic crisis.