Monday's “emergency” meeting in Paris appears to have confirmed the Trump administration's unwillingness to include European leaders in Ukrainian peace negotiations, as deep divisions remain in Europe's role in the peace process.
Leaders of eight European countries, together with two EU representatives, were organized in a hurry after US officials at the Munich Security Conference shot down the idea of having Europeans “at the table” of peace A trip to Paris on Monday for negotiations intended to end the war in Ukraine.
The summit has backed up as British Prime Minister Kiel said he is willing to sign President Macron's plan to deploy European troops to former Soviet states to act as a buffer against Russian invasion. I received it. Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer also said her country “doesn't rule out” the possibility of sending Swedish troops to Ukraine.
However, it soon became clear that a wider consensus remained out of reach ahead of the summit.
Before traveling to Paris, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tass closed his country's troops in Ukraine. Tusk, who is at the helm of the largest army in the EU, I said About every day fakt“Poland will support Ukraine as before, in line with our financial, humanitarian and military aid capabilities. We do not intend to send Polish soldiers to Ukraine. We will also support the logistics and political support of the country, which we hope to provide such assurances for the future, and these physical assurances for Ukraine.”
The Polish prime minister said he shares the territory and land borders of Russia's former post base, Kaliningrad, and urges other leaders at the Paris Summit to increase defence spending to follow his country's example. .
Following the meeting, German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz said it was “very inappropriate” to discuss the deployment of troops to Ukraine.
Meanwhile, government sources from Berlin Briefing French paper Le Figaro Prior to the meeting, Germany says that unless it has “full US commitment” to assume their safety, it will not consider sending troops to Ukraine.
A German official said, arguing that Ukraine's peacekeeping process must be a “transatlantic challenge.” “We will not participate in the scenario where European and American security is dissociated. State.”
Comments from Berlin are in relation to a statement from US Defense Secretary Pete Hegses, who said the Trump administration has no plans to deploy US troops to Ukraine and there are no European troops, according to Breitbart News. It seemed to have been done. It is considered a NATO mission. That is, if European soldiers fire fire from Russians in Ukrainians, they will not trigger Article 5 of the American mandatory alliance agreement. Nuclear power.
Hungary criticised the summit in Paris, but was not invited to participate in the talks despite sharing the border with Ukraine. Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Syjart I said, “Anti-Trump European leaders who support the war are gathering in Paris today to block peace efforts in Ukraine.”
“The era of interventionist politics is over,” continued Syjart. “Unlike the conference in Paris, which has escalated for three years, we support peace efforts and negotiations.”
The failure of the conference in Paris failed to reach meaningful conclusions about the role Europe could play in the aftermath of a potential settlement in the war negotiations, leading to skepticism from the Trump White House. Kiev and Moscow seem to have begun to involve Europeans in future discussions.
At the Munich Security Conference over the weekend, Ukraine and Russia's Special U.S. President Keis Kellogg argued that previous negotiations, such as the 2015 Minsk II Agreement, failed to create lasting peace between Russia and Ukraine. I did. As a table, the fresh talks should only involve Moscow and Kiev, where Washington serves as mediators.
Russians have previously expressed skepticism about Europe's intentions regarding Ukraine. Vladimir Putin, for example, often cited comments from former German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2022. She appeared to suggest that the Minsk Agreement was simply intended to build an army to buy “time” in Ukraine.
There is also widespread doubt that European countries can commit to large, potentially long-term military deployments in Ukraine. A state that assumes the safety of the continent.
Certainly, the British Prime Minister will deploy British troops in Ukraine's “way of harm” as Lord Richard Dannatt of the British Army, his government's commitment to raising defense spending to 2.5% to 2.5% of GDP. He said he was motivated. If he believes that the UK can maintain such a development, he lives in “Fantasyland.”
Danut Lord I said BBC: “Frankly, we don't have the numbers. We don't have the equipment to put a lot of force on the ground for a long time,” he added that UK defence spending is necessary. . To consider discussing such missions, immediately increase to at least 3 or 3.5%.
The former British Army Secretary said it would require up to 40,000 British troops, assuming a six-month rotating deployment schedule. He warned that the total strength is currently only about 73,000 units, and the UK does not have the necessary number of soldiers, he said.
