“2026 and beyond”: The British Foreign Secretary gave a grim forecast about the duration of the war in Ukraine

The Russian-Ukrainian conflict will continue in 2026 and “beyond.”

This follows from the statement made by British Foreign Secretary David Lammy at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.

During his speech, he said that the difficulties and challenges of the war in Ukraine would become “deeper and tougher,” especially “at the end of 2025, in 2026, and beyond.”

These remarks were quoted by The Guardian.

At the time of the statement, former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi, who now serves as Ukraine’s ambassador to Britain, was present in the hall. He also spoke, urging the West to increase the supply of weapons to Kyiv and to begin shooting down Russian missiles over Ukrainian territory.

Earlier, The Times wrote that if the war in Ukraine is not stopped along the front lines, it will become “endless.”

The columnist describes two main scenarios: either Kyiv agrees to Russian control over the captured territories, or the war turns into an indefinitely prolonged conflict of attrition.

Media outlets also cited statements from the Dutch Defense Minister, who believes that the fighting in Ukraine will not end this year or the next.