Germany is likely to reject Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to send a European peacekeeping force into Ukraine, according to reports.

The UK and France are set to propose deploying soldiers to Kyiv if there is a deal to end the war with Russia, but Germany and Poland are said to be against the move.

It comes as European leaders are meeting in Paris this afternoon as they scramble for a strategy in response to US President Donald Trump’s push for an agreement with Vladimir Putin.

A diplomatic source told The Telegraph: “The whole discussion is moot without both Germany and Poland’s participation.”

The Prime Minister was pictured arriving at the Elysee Palace shortly before 3pm on Monday afternoon and shook the hand of French President Emmanuel Macron before heading inside.

Mark Rutte, the secretary-general of Nato followed Sir Keir into the building shortly afterwards, and the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez have also been pictured arriving.

The gathering in Paris comes as US secretary of state Marco Rubio is leading a delegation to Saudi Arabia for talks with Russian officials that will look to seek an end to the fighting.

Ukraine has not been invited to the talks and will not accept the outcome if Kyiv is not involved, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier.

Sir Keir revealed ahead of the meeting that he was willing to put a peacekeeping force in Ukraine.

The PM said his message to European counterparts was that “we’ve all got to step up across Europe”.

Sir Keir, who is due to visit Mr Trump in Washington DC later this month, said: “We’re facing a generational challenge when it comes to national security.

“Obviously, the immediate question is the future of Ukraine, and we must continue to put Ukraine in the strongest possible position whatever happens next, and to make sure that if there is peace, and we all want peace, that it is lasting.”