Vladimir Putin wants abandoned paralyzing penalties for the cease of Ukraine. Europe has other ideas

Although a specific date has not been set, Starmer confirmed that the defense of the United Kingdom, France and Germany will meet with Ukrainian officials to coordinate further military assistance.

In his discussions with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, Starmer condemned the continuous attacks of Russia and accused Putin of making “empty promises” on peace.

Zelensky, in turn, echoed the feeling, stating that all the leaders of Paris “understand that Russia does not want any type of peace for today”.

He insisted that he is happy that with every summit “the position … is increasingly stronger”, despite the natural minor differences when more than 30 countries meet in one place.

“What unites us is that everyone is supporting, they speak in support of Ukraine, for the security guarantees for us and is very important, they are on our side,” he said.

Macron proposed the creation of a “reassurance force” to help guarantee key infrastructures in Ukraine and dissuade further Russian attacks.

But Russian officials strongly opposed the idea, with the spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova who warns that such a deployment could risk a direct military confrontation between the Russian and NATO forces.

“London and Paris continue to cultivate the idea of ​​a military intervention in Ukraine. All this is tamed below (the remains of) a certain mission of maintenance of peace,” said Zakharova.

Macron assured that the European force would have been defensive, aimed at monitoring a ceaser rather than engaged in combat.

Despite the support of some EU member states, such as Denmark and Baltic nations, many other countries remain hesitant in committing troops in Ukraine without a wider international support. Poland, Italy and Greece, for example, expressed reluctance to participate, especially without a clear commitment from the United States.

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“These reassurance forces are a British proposal that is desired by Ukraine,” said Macron. “He is not unanimous, but we don’t need unanimity to do it.”

Presented as a force to monitor the line of ceased the fire, Macron said that Mfu “could be required to hold positions in the peace zone in the Ukrainian territory” and would not be “engaged on the first day in front of the Russian forces”.

“I think that within three or four weeks, we will have solved these two questions: the structure of the Ukrainian army, the reassurance forces and a fairly precise action plan with the needs, as well as the collaborators,” Macron said.

While the United States were involved in facilitating the fire interviews, it remains absent from the discussions on the coalition on the European strength of maintenance of peace.

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The President of the United States Donald Trump had suggested that Washington was “looking at” Moscow requests to raise penalties.

But the European leaders remained still, with the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen who says that the EU would have raised sanctions until Russia unconditionally withdrawn its troops from the territory recognized at an international Ukrainian level.

Zelensky expressed the hope that the United States “are strong” against the requests of Russia to raise sanctions, in particular because the Eastern members of NATO fear the consequences of the downsizing of support for Ukraine.