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The safety guarantees that Europe can give Ukraine postwar, continue to be discussed by European leaders. But at a meeting of defense ministers in Paris, it was clear that sending military personnel to watch a peace agreement continues to cause division.
After Americans and Ukrainians propose to Russia a break in the hostility of a month, the Minister of Defense of France received counterparts from European countries with the most powerful armies. The United Kingdom and Italy, but also Poland and Germany.
But if this ceasefire is confirmed, the Europeans have already had proof that thereafter they will be alone to protect Ukraine against Russia.
To give letters to Kiev, this meeting in Paris, he discussed what to provide to Ukraine so that if he accepts a peace agreement, he will no longer be attacked by Russia.
The desire of French and British is to send military personnel who watch the peace, but the idea already rejected by Italy is far from consensus. Is too caricatured and simplified to the only question of the presence of troops in Ukrainian territory
“At this stage, about 15 countries are interested in continuing this process and reflecting on it. It’s complex, as I have often said to the French press, ”said Sebastian Leconnu, Minister of Defense of France.
Consensual here was to say no to the demilitarization of Ukraine, a requirement of Russia, but that the powerful of Europe guarantee that they will not allow. After all, they say, the Ukrainian army is the biggest security guarantee Kiev has.
