UK offers Ukraine peacekeeping troops as European resolve hardens [View all]
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Source: Reuters
Britain said it was ready to send peacekeeping troops to back up any peace deal for Ukraine as European leaders gathered on Monday to agree a unified strategy, while Russian and U.S. officials prepared to meet for their own competing talks.
The Europeans were holding an emergency summit in Paris to discuss their role in Ukraine's future after President Donald Trump's U.S. administration, Kyiv's main military backer, announced it would sit down with Russia to seek an end to thethree-year-old war. Russia has ruled out conceding territory.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's comments on Sunday reflect a growing realisation among European nations that they will have to play a bigger role in ensuring Ukraine's security. Washington has made clear to Europe it must stop relying on the United States for its defence.
A peacekeeping force would not only raise the risk of a direct confrontation with Russia but also stretch European armies, whose stocks have been depleted by supplying Ukraine and decades of relative peace. There are also difficult questions about how some European nations, whose public finances are already groaning, will pay for such efforts.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/fast-moving-ukraine-diplomacy-means-europeans-must-do-more-official-says-2025-02-17/
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