A meeting by videoconference of managers ready to help Ukraine in the event of a truce is scheduled for Saturday on the initiative of London
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is organizing a videoconferencing summit in London on Saturday with some 25 leaders ready to help peacekeeping in Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire with Russia. Several European countries, as well as Ukraine, NATO, the European Commission, Canada and Australia must take part in this meeting in the morning, to specify the contours of a coalition of voluntary countries to “Support a fair and lasting peace” In Ukraine, according to a Downing Street press release.
The United States claimed a truce as quickly as possible and has exerted considerable pressure on the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who finally accepted Tuesday a cessation of the thirty-day hostilities insofar as Russia would also bend. But the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, expressed reservations and mentioned “Important questions” To be paid before a ceasefire. “The total contempt for the Kremlin for the cease-fire proposal from President Trump only demonstrates Putin does not take peace seriously”castigated Keir Starmer on Friday evening in a statement.
For several days, the British Prime Minister and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, have been working to constitute a “Coalition of voluntary countries”whose aim would be to dissuade Russia from again attacking Ukraine if a cease-fire came into force. According to Downing Street, the meeting on Saturday must “Allowing to deepen the way in which countries plan to contribute to this coalition, upstream of a military planning session next week”. This participation could take the form of sending troops – a commitment that Paris, London and Ankara said they were ready to take -, but also more logistical support.