Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that he discussed the potential deployment of Western troops to Ukraine with French President Emmanuel Macron during a phone call on Monday. The presidents agreed to continue working together on achieving peace and developing effective security guarantees, including the French initiative to deploy military contingents in Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelensky says he has again discussed the notion of deploying Western troops to Ukraine to face down future Russian aggression in a telephone call with his French counterpart, President Emmanuel Macron.
The Ukrainian and French presidents continue to be the central nexus of organisation for a mooted deployment of Western troops to support Kyiv. Zelensky confirmed he had discussed the matter again with Macron on Monday evening. Announcing the call, Zelensky said the pair had discussed the battlefield situation and agreed to continue working closely on “achieving peace and developing effective security guarantees.
Zelensky said one of those guarantees discussed was “the French initiative to deploy military contingents in Ukraine. We addressed practical steps for its implementation, potential expansion, and the involvement of other nations in this effort.” The suggestion that Western nations deploy troops to Ukraine to prevent further Russian aggression has been openly discussed for some time now, particularly by President Emmanuel Macron, who has transformed himself from a dove eager to negotiate with Putin in the early stages of the latest invasion to a hawk ahead of other NATO leaders on weapon donations. His lobbying to develop a European force of 100,000 peacekeepersat the Ukraine meeting at the Ramstein NATO airbase in Germany.
As well as calling for peacekeeper contingents in Ukraine and for Western states to send more modern weapons to Ukraine to strike deep inside Russia to degrade its warfighting capacity, France’s Macron hadto end-of-war negotiations but has called on incoming President Donald Trump to strengthen Ukraine’s hand before starting talks.
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