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As Ukrainian president rallies support abroad, legislators at home approve tax hikes to raise billions for defence.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has kicked off a tour of Europe to bolster military and financial backing, meeting British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

Zelenskyy arrived in London on Thursday for talks on his “victory plan”, a blueprint aimed at ending the war with Russia, which he had earlier described as an appeal to allies “to strengthen us, in terms of security guarantees, in terms of weapons, in terms of our future after this war”.

Starmer confirmed before the meeting that it was a chance to “go through the plan, to talk in more detail”.

Zelenskyy had been due to present the plan at a high-level meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Germany this week, but the summit was postponed after US President Joe Biden cancelled his visit to focus on Hurricane Milton.

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