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<\/p>\nGermany has raised the prospect of a military involvement in securing a potential ceasefire in Ukraine during a meeting of Kiev’s allies in Paris.<\/p>\n
“This could include, for example, us registering forces for Ukraine on neighbouring NATO territory after a ceasefire,” Chancellor Friedrich Merz said following the meeting.<\/p>\n
“The nature and scope of a German contribution must and will be decided by the federal government and the German Bundestag as soon as the conditions mentioned have been clarified,” Merz said.<\/p>\n
“I want to say for myself and also for the federal government: We are not ruling anything out in principle.”<\/p>\n
This could mean that even the deployment of Bundeswehr soldiers in Ukraine itself is not ruled out.<\/p>\n
For months, allies have been discussing how to secure a possible ceasefire and protect Ukraine from new attacks by Russia. France and Britain have been the driving forces behind this effort.<\/p>\n
Germany, on the other hand, has taken the position that the question will only arise once the terms of a ceasefire have been clarified.<\/p>\n
Now Merz is changing course: He has declared his fundamental willingness for Germany to participate militarily; However, it remains unclear how many German soldiers would be involved and what tasks they would take on.<\/p>\n
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(L-R) German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner speak during a press conference at Elysee Palace in Paris, following a meeting with members of the Coalition of the Willing, the countries prepared to offer support to Ukraine. Tom Nicholson\/PA Wire\/dpa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany has raised the prospect of a military involvement in securing a potential ceasefire in Ukraine during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[6721,44456,2000,299,1945,36832,15439,206042,128419,1824,64711,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-678796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-coalition-of-the-willing","9":"tag-elysee-palace","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-friedrich-merz","13":"tag-german-bundestag","14":"tag-german-chancellor","15":"tag-german-contribution","16":"tag-german-soldiers","17":"tag-germany","18":"tag-president-volodymyr-zelensky","19":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115851020430939149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}