\n US backs Europe’s post-war Ukraine plan for first time – as UK pledges boots on the ground\n <\/p>\n
The\u00a0\u200cUS has for the first time backed plans by a coalition of Ukrainian allies to provide binding security guarantees to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire.<\/p>\n
Keir Starmer has pledged British boots on the ground as part of post-war peacekeeping efforts, in order to train Ukrainian troops and protect stocks of weaponry.<\/p>\n
The agreement was made at a coalition \u200bof the willing summit in Paris between 35 nations, including mainly European countries as well as the likes of Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Japan.<\/p>\n
Among them was US envoys Steve Witkoff, who said after the summit that Donald Trump “strongly stands behind security protocols”, which are meant to deter another Russian invasion.<\/p>\n
“If there are any attacks, they’re meant to defend, and they will do both. They are as strong as anyone has ever seen,” he said.<\/p>\n
Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who was also at the meeting, said that if Ukrainians were to make a final deal, “they have to know that after a deal they are secure, they have, obviously, a robust deterrence, and there’s real backstops to make sure that this will not happen again”.<\/p>\n
Allies, led by the US, would monitor the ceasefire with drones, sensors and satellites.<\/p>\n
But the specific statement, the Paris Declaration, was not explicitly endorsed by the United States and details of a US role were watered down from an earlier draft.<\/p>\n
This was in stark contrast to the leaders of the UK and France, who signed a declaration of intent on the future deployment of forces on the ground, in the air and at sea, as part of a wider European-led multinational force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US backs Europe’s post-war Ukraine plan for first time – as UK pledges boots on the ground The\u00a0\u200cUS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332],"class_list":{"0":"post-679913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115853843722754512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679913","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=679913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}