Exclusive: Letter by cross-party group to Stephen Doughty warns of omission in US proposals involving Russia

A cross-party group of more than 130 Westminster MPs has written to ministers urging them to ensure any US-brokered peace plan for Ukraine includes protections for forcibly-deported Ukrainian children, saying the current version risked “extinguishing” their rights.

Led by the Labour MP Johanna Baxter, the letter to Stephen Doughty, whose Foreign Office brief includes Europe, warns that the current peace framework being touted by the Trump administration would “hollow out” protections to children enshrined in the Geneva convention.