About 15 countries want to provide security guarantees for Ukraine - French MoD
Photo: French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu (Getty Images)
About 15 countries want to provide security guarantees to Ukraine. These states now need to allocate responsibilities, states French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu, according to BBC News.
As reported, today, the defense ministers of the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Poland, and Italy met in Paris to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine. The talks were chaired by Lecornu.
The French defense minister stated that "the real security guarantees here will be the help we can give to the Ukrainian army."
According to him, about 15 countries want to offer Ukraine various security guarantees.
"It's complex... we have to think about matters of security in the Black Sea, nuclear power plants in Ukraine... and we will have to start thinking about dividing up these responsibilities," Lecornu added.
He also announced that the chiefs of staff of the armed forces will meet again in 15 days.
"Why 15 days? Because if Russia has accepted the ceasefire we'll obviously want to use the 30 days to come up with the structure of the security framework," the French minister noted.
Security guarantees for Ukraine
Earlier, US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz stated that President Donald Trump wants to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, but security guarantees will be the responsibility of Europe.
Trump himself has said that he does not want to provide Ukraine with security guarantees until the war is over, noting that his priorities differ from those of Europe.
According to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, US security guarantees are the only effective way to deter Russia from launching another attack on Ukraine.
Meanwhile, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, following an emergency summit in Paris, announced that Europe is ready to take the lead in providing security guarantees for Ukraine.
However, he emphasized that European security guarantees for Ukraine will still "require" US support to deter Russia.
For his part, French President Emmanuel Macron, during a meeting with military chiefs in Paris, called on them to begin planning security guarantees for Ukraine after the "end of the war."
