Europe to Present Trump With Ukraine Force Plan Within Weeks
A burned out apartment in a residential high rise building following a Russian drone strike in Kyiv in March.
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The UK and France are planning to present Donald Trump with a comprehensive plan for a post-war “reassurance force” in Ukraine that they hope will persuade the US president to commit to security guarantees for Kyiv, according to people familiar with the matter.
In the next two weeks, military chiefs aim to hammer out the details of how a Europe-led “coalition of the willing” will help ensure the security of Ukraine’s airspace, coastline and land as well as the regeneration of its forces, UK Defense Secretary John Healey and his French counterpart Sébastien Lecornu said on Friday.