This is an article from Russian online news Izvestia about Sir Keir Starmer's visit. It is of interest due to the obvious different bias. (I won't provide the source as it is Russian.)
"On February 27, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is scheduled to follow French President Emmanuel Macron’s example and meet with US President Donald Trump in Washington to discuss Ukraine and European defense capabilities. Like Macron, Starmer will certainly try to dissuade Trump from engaging with Moscow.
"Kier Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, and German chancellor-elect Friedrich Merz now represent an anti-Trump bloc. Its task is to derail Trump’s peace initiatives," former Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov told Izvestia in an interview.
"Even if Starmer fails to influence Trump at a personal meeting, Britain will continue to undermine dialogue between Moscow and Washington anyway as it seeks continued bloodshed and hostilities in Ukraine, Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large in charge of overseeing the Kiev regime’s crimes, believes. "Britain is unique in that it does many things under the radar rather than overtly. And it holds major leverage on Ukraine’s special services and military units that it has been using so that the Moscow-Washington dialogue should not happen. <…> London always feels much more comfortable where there is a divide between Russia and the United States," the diplomat told Izvestia.
"The UK may challenge the Trump administration’s efforts to settle the Ukraine conflict by increasing assistance to Kiev so that the latter can stay afloat and continue hostilities," said Tigran Meloyan, an analyst at the HSE Center for Mediterranean Studies. Or else, the expert continued, Britain could undermine the settlement process by sending European troops to Ukraine in a move that would be unacceptable to Russia and could even sign the death warrant of any negotiations.
"It’s worth noting though that this initiative was put forward by Great Britain, not an EU-member state, and France but was never supported by the others in the EU," Meloyan added.
However, to exert pressure on London, Russia could use the pricing mechanism for oil, which, in turn, affects gasoline and consumer prices and would inevitably hurt the British economy, Ivan Loshkaryov, Associate Professor of the Department of Political Theory at MGIMO University, argues. "Besides, Russia may and will likely raise the issue of Britain’s destructive role at international venues, primarily at BRICS, the United Nations, at G20 meetings, and bilateral talks with the United States," the expert concluded.