The head of the Ukrainian state spoke about working on security guarantees in Ukraine, which has been going on at the level of teams for two months. He called today's meeting with the leaders of the armies of France and the UK for the deployment of guarantee forces in Ukraine “summarizing”, as well as “staging and very important.”
“This does not mean that only three countries that were today: Ukraine, France, Britain are included in this process. Many other countries, I do not want to say the number of this coalition, it will be a coalition. I think that we need another month, and we believe that no longer, we will be ready with understanding this infrastructure. We discuss the presence in the sky and in the sea, as well as the air defense and some of the air defense and some We will meet ticking things for a week, and I think that we will meet every week not at my level, but at the level of our military.
Separately, Zelensky spoke about the discussion of issues on the number of peacekeepers and the mandate of infrastructure.
“Today I discussed strategic issues, not only issues of quantity, but also issues of the mandate of this infrastructure. It is important for me to give an understanding at what stage of the agreement we can already count on the contingent,” he said.
Zelensky emphasized that the commander of the headquarters has no authority to decide something, so they will tell the position of Ukraine to the leaders of their countries and headquarters of other countries, and after that the next meeting will be held.
Context
On March 2, British Prime Minister Cyrus Starmer said that Great Britain, France and Ukraine pledged to work together on a peace agreement, and formed a “coalition of those who wish.” Within the framework of this initiative, troops from a number of European countries and NATO countries as peacekeepers can be sent to Ukraine in order to keep the country of-aggressor of the Russian Federation from re-equipment and re-attack in the future.
The Times wrote that about 35 countries agreed to provide weapons, logistics and intelligence support for a potential peacekeeping mission. According to Bloomberg, 30 countries approximately proposed to provide the military peacekeeping coalition, aircraft, ships, reconnaissance data or financing. In addition to European countries, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan took part in the discussion.
On March 27, a summit of “Coalitions of those who wish” took place in Paris. It was attended by leaders and representatives of 31 countries, as well as NATO, the European Commission and the European Council, according to the office of the President of Ukraine. A week before Starmer said, 200 military planners from 30 countries worked in London as part of the coalition, they submitted their proposals “on all issues – from logistics and command to deployment on land, in the air and at sea.”
April 1 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced Meeting military teams Several countries who are ready to place their military contingents in Ukraine.
