Even as France and the UK offer a written commitment to Ukraine to deploy troops in the event of a peace deal, doubts remain whether the US will back those troops in case they come under a Russian attack.
As allies met in Paris to firm up security guarantees for Ukraine, the presence of peace envoys sent by Donald Trump offered hope that the US was still listening to the EU despite the president's threats to annex Greenland.
"We have largely finished the security protocols," said Steve Witkoff, one of the two emissaries, as he stood alongside the leaders of France, Germany, the UK and Ukraine at the presidential palace in Paris.
"This is important so that when this war ends, it ends forever," he said.
Even as France and the UK inked their resolve to deploy troops to Ukraine in a postwar scenario, the US did not offer to protect those troops in case Russia threatened their security.
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