New UK PM Burnham hosts Zelensky in show of support

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived in the UK as the first overseas leader to visit new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, meeting him at a naval base where Ukrainian forces have been receiving training. Burnham framed the visit as a demonstration of Britain's "unwavering" backing for Ukraine, coming less than two weeks after his predecessor Keir Starmer made his final foreign trip to Kyiv. The symbolic timing matters: it is Burnham's earliest opportunity to stamp his own foreign policy identity.