{"id":329407,"date":"2026-07-28T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329407"},"modified":"2026-07-29T07:39:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:39:53","slug":"burnham-to-host-zelenskyy-in-first-foreign-visit-as-pm-pledging-unwavering-ukraine-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329407","title":{"rendered":"Burnham to host Zelenskyy in first foreign visit as PM, pledging unwavering Ukraine support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Georgia Bell \u2013 LBC July 27, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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The new prime minister will open the doors of Downing Street to the Ukrainian president <\/a>a week after moving in himself, which No. 10 said emphasises the Government\u2019s continued backing for Kyiv under his leadership.<\/p>\n

The state leaders are expected to visit a naval base where Mr Burnham will announce that Britain will hand over the intellectual property behind its new \u201cStone Cloak\u201d electronic warfare system.<\/p>\n

The new prime minister will open the doors of Downing Street to the Ukrainian president <\/a>a week after moving in himself, which No. 10 said emphasises the Government\u2019s continued backing for Kyiv under his leadership.<\/p>\n

The state leaders are expected to visit a naval base where Mr Burnham will announce that Britain will hand over the intellectual property behind its new \u201cStone Cloak\u201d electronic warfare system.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Mr Burnham<\/a> said: \u201cBritain stands with Ukraine, shoulder to shoulder, and our support remains unwavering.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia should be in no doubt of our resolve and we will not back down until we achieve long-lasting and just peace for Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cStone Cloak is the best of homegrown British innovation and proven on the frontline, and it will be vital to protecting our security in both our countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

The technology, once deployed in Ukraine<\/a>, will be part of the UK\u2019s next generation of long-range strike weapons, which include Project Brakestop – the Government\u2019s initiative to create cruise missiles at a reduced cost.<\/p>\n

As part of the visit, the leaders will meet over 200 Ukrainian military personnel who have spent the past three weeks in the UK participating in Exercise Sea Breeze, which is focused on strengthening warfighting capabilities and counter-mine measures in the Black Sea.<\/a><\/p>\n

Mr Burnham spoke to the Ukrainian President in one of his first calls after entering No.10 last Monday and extended the invite for Mr Zelenskyy to visit \u201cat the earliest opportunity\u201d.<\/p>\n

The new prime minister, who has little foreign policy experience from his previous time in government, had pledged to maintain the resolute support that his predecessor, Sir Keir Starmer, had for Ukraine before entering No 10.<\/a><\/p>\n

Sir Keir visited Kyiv on his final full day as Labour leader.<\/p>\n

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Confirmation that Burnham will be no different than any of his predecessors; he will do as he is told, utter political platitudes and continue efforts to incite war with Russia <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329407"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329415,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329407\/revisions\/329415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}