THE Communist Party of Britain has said it is “time to stop the war and start the peace” in Ukraine.

A peace settlement in Ukraine is long overdue, the party’s political committee heard on Tuesday night, following talks between the US and Russian governments in Saudi Arabia.

The party’s international secretary Kevan Nelson said: “It’s a bit rich for British and EU politicians to complain about their own exclusion from the Riyadh summit when they have spent two years fuelling the conflict instead of trying to initiate a peace process.”