Europe is preparing to post troops in Ukraine with a strong multinational force if the current round of peace talks culminates in a formal end to the war.
Discussions on the nearly four-year conflict, that has claimed more than one million Russian casualties, are intensifying, with a virtual summit of the 36 countries in the “coalition of the willing” being hosted by France, Britain and Germany on Tuesday afternoon.
It is to be followed by an emergency call the next day between EU foreign ministers, two days after a similar meeting between heads of state.
High on the agenda will be security guarantees for Kyiv following any agreement, and this was reinforced during a conversation between British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday morning.
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starm
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