British Prime Minister Kiel Starmer became the first European leader to say he is ready to put peacekeepers in Ukraine, and discussed Europe's role in the ceasefire ahead of the emergency leaders' meeting in Paris I promise to do so.
Starmer's comments show that as Washington is working alone with Russia on the potential end of the three-year conflict, they need to play a bigger role in ensuring Ukraine's security It emphasizes.
Sweden will consider contributing to Ukraine's postwar peacekeeping forces, Prime Minister Wolf Christerson said Monday, adding that negotiations must progress before such a decision is made.
US President Donald Trump announced last week that when he surprised Ukraine and European allies, he called with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the end of the war without consulting them.
The effort was scheduled to advance this week in a meeting between US and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia.
Trump's Ukrainian envoy Keith Kellogg said on Saturday that Europe has no seat at the table for peace talks. Washington sent a survey to the European capital to ask what could contribute to Kiev's security assurance.
At Monday's summit in Paris, President Emmanuel Macron hosted leaders from Germany, Italy, the UK, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark.
A French presidential official said the argument would consider “security guarantees given by Europeans and Americans together or separately.”
A priority expected to travel to Washington to meet Trump next week is that on Sunday, Europe faces a “one generation moment” for the continent's collective security, closely with the US He said they have to work together.
He said the UK is ready to play a leading role in providing security assurances for Ukraine.
“The end of this war cannot be a temporary pause when it comes, before Putin attacks again,” he wrote in the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
The European conference in Paris comes after 27 EU countries showed that they were unable to create cohesive plans to end the Ukrainian war.
The UK is not a member of the EU, but it is a major supporter of Ukraine.
Europe “needs to do something better.”
Ukrainian officials told Reuters last week that only the UK and France had shown their willingness to send troops so far at some point.
But that could be changing.
Sweden's Christerson said there was “absolute possibility” to send peacekeepers on Monday.
“These forces need very clear missions and I don't think we'll be able to see them until we're coming further in those negotiations,” he said on the sidelines of a military exercise in Stockholm. .
Peacekeepers are used to increasing the risk of direct conflict with Russia, extending Ukrainian supply European troops, where arms stocks are running out, and relying heavily on US support for major missions. Masu.
Officials from the French presidency said Europe “needs to do it in a better, better and more consistent way for our collective security.”
However, some countries were unhappy that the Paris conference was not a complete EU summit, EU officials said.
The French presidency said the meeting would encourage future discussions in Brussels and NATO.
