The US President suggested that there could be European troops on the ground in the context of a peace agreement to ensure that the truce between Ukraine and Russia would be respected.
“If you want to do that, great. I’m totally in favor. If you want to do that, I think it would be great,” Trump said at a press conference, adding that he won’t send US troops under any circumstances.
The Republican suggested that there could be European troops on the ground in the context of a peace agreement to ensure that the truce between Ukraine and Russia would be respected.
“I wouldn’t do any objection,” Trump insisted, adding that he would not fit the United States to mobilize his strength because Ukraine “is far away.”
The US head of state pointed out that the United Kingdom and France discussed the possibility, something Trump would consider “a beautiful gesture.”
French President Emmanuel Macron held a meeting in Paris on Monday with the leaders of Spain, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Denmark, as well as with those responsible from the European Union and Nato, to outline a strategy European to Ukraine in the light of US -led peace negotiations.
But the leaders were divided on whether they should now discuss whether Europe should send peace maintenance forces to Ukraine to ensure a possible peace agreement intermediated by Moscow and Washington.
“The war in Ukraine had never started if I had been in power for three years”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rated Tuesday as unacceptable the possible sending of troops from European countries to Ukraine, arguing that everyone is NATO members.
On Wednesday, it will promote a new meeting with “several European and non-Europeans” states, with the aim of gathering the 27th by the end of the week, announced in an interview with several daily regional newspapers, including Le Parisien, La Provence and Sud Ouest.
To date, the Elisha Palace (headquarters of the French Presidency) has not yet said that this new meeting will consist, nor who will attend.
Diplomatic sources cited by France 24 television station indicated, however, that “other European countries” will be present in the first emergency summit called Macron – Norway, the three Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia), Czech Republic, Greece , Finland, Romania, Sweden and Belgium – “and non -Europeans”, such as Canada, NATO ally.
Official source of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Lusa that Portugal was invited to attend the second meeting.
