The French president supports the idea and has already discussed the idea with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the British daily said. However, as the article notes, Downing Street and Elysée spokespeople did not deny that Starmer and Macron had discussed the possibility during their meeting at Checkers last week.
Officials in London and Paris are keeping details of the talks secret, the Telegraph reported, adding that a number of senior British government officials had stressed that Starmer had not yet fully considered the proposal.
“There are concerns about what we can support, what we want to support, and the broader questions of the threats our soldiers could be exposed to and whether it would be an escalation,” an anonymous source said. one person told the paper.
As the newspaper points out, European leaders are now deciding how to continue to support Ukraine’s sovereignty in the face of signals from US President-elect Donald Trump. Republicans are pressuring Kiev to reach a peace deal with Russia.
The British government’s official position is that Western allies should provide Mr. Zelenskiy with all possible support, and that Ukrainians should decide when and whether to participate in peace talks.
European peacekeeping forces stationed in Ukraine? Details in British paper
Cabinet members and officials are said to have suggested in private conversations that Trump would force Ukraine and Russia to talk, and are now trying to determine what happens next. One of the questions increasingly being debated, both in public and behind closed doors at Westminster, is whether Western forces can be a guarantor of peace in Kiev.
Let’s remember. At the end of 2024, on the initiative of President Macron, talks intensified regarding the possibility of sending a detachment of European peacekeeping forces to Ukraine (after the end of the war with Russia) as one of the preventive measures against a new Russian attack. .
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy acknowledged that such an idea had indeed been discussed at a pre-Christmas meeting in Brussels and said he had already “received positive signals” from some leaders.
Source: “The Telegraph”
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