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In the European countries, the troops collapsed to Ukraine when they held a crisis meeting to achieve a consensus how we can react to the peace talks of US President Donald Trump with Russia.
When the leaders in Paris were convened in Paris on Monday afternoon for the emergency assembly, Germany, Poland and Spain signaled the reluctance to send peace security for the country that was traveled by the war, hours after Great Britain was offered. Place “boots on the floor”.
The meeting on Monday, from which France hoped, would also deliver plans to support the European countries that increase defense spending was organized by President Emmanuel Macron and participated by six EU countries, the United Kingdom and the NATO and the EU officials .
Macron and Trump spoke in front of the Paris summit.
The European allies in Washington races to react to the shock announcement of the US President Talks with Russiawho are supposed to begin in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
The Kremlin has led the discussions in Riad, to which Ukraine does not belong, as a step to restore full bilateral relations with the United States.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday that Kyiv would not recognize the result of negotiations from which it was excluded. Keith Kellogg, Trump’s Messenger of Ukraine, later said “Nobody” would impose decisions about Zelenskyy as “elected leader of a sovereign nation”.
According to three officials who were reported for the preparations for the Paris meeting Ukraine.
While British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starrer said he was “ready and ready. . . (To set our own troops on site if necessary, ”other countries are much more reluctant.
The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who faces nationwide elections on Sunday, housed his many years of caution from troop missions and said the debate was premature.
“The question now is how peace can be ensured without making decisions about the heads of the Ukrainian people,” he said before the meeting.
“Nobody is currently considering sending troops to Ukraine,” said José Manuel Albares, Foreign Minister of Spain. “Peace is still very far away and for one reason only: Vladimir Putin.”
He added that every discussion about troop operations or peacekeepers “would have to think about the mission, who would comprise them with which mandate under which flag”.
Although Poland has significantly increased defense spending since the beginning of the war, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Warsaw was not ready to send troops to Ukraine.
“But we will also support countries with regard to logistics and political support that may be available in the future,” added Tusk.
“If we, Europeans, don’t spend much for the defense now, we will be forced to spend ten times more if we do not prevent wider war,” he said.
The meeting on Monday was to discuss the financing of increased European defense spending and military skills, possibly described by joint borrowing or the other “innovative financing methods”.
Macron has long asked the EU to get involved in reducing their dependence on US troops and weapons, although Germany and the Netherlands have rejected such a step.
The dramatic change in US farming to Ukraine has forced the positions of European leaders to develop quickly.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Friday that she would suggest that capitals expressly enable temporary loosening of the block of blocks for deficiency spending. A plan of the EU official said that they had the widespread support in the entire block.
After the meeting, Scholz also advocated the idea of an “escape clause” to EU deficiency rules, but stopped supporting the joint borrowing.
Starrer has also undertaken to take up a “way” for defense spending in Great Britain in order to achieve 2.5 percent of GDP.
Before the trip to Paris, the British Prime Minister said with journalists: “Ukraine is not just about the front. It is the front line of Europe and Great Britain. It’s about our national security and I think we have to do more. “
Reporting by Leila Abboud and Ben Hall in Paris, Henry Foy in Brussels, Raphael Minder in Warsaw, Barney Jopson in Madrid, Laura Litel in Berlin and George Parker in London
