Сould peacekeepers be deployed to Ukraine, officials comment
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In Donald Trump's peace plan for Ukraine, when it finally appears in some form, the idea of introducing peacekeepers will be present, with the indication that the peacekeepers should be from Europe, RBC-Ukraine reports, citing sources within Ukraine's top military and political leadership.
Such an idea aligns entirely with Trump's concept that "European security is Europe's responsibility."
According to sources, in Ukraine, the attitude towards this idea is still very cool. After all, the introduction of peacekeepers is an agreement to the same "freezing of the conflict" indefinitely, which is unacceptable for Kyiv.
There are also purely practical difficulties - the contact line is too long, which must be kept under control, much longer than, for example, in Korea or Lebanon.
It is not a fact that major European countries will so easily agree to send a significant contingent of their forces to Ukraine, where they will be exposed to enormous risk. Potentially, the scope of the peacekeeping mission could be expanded at the expense of third countries and transferred to a UN mandate, with the involvement of conditional Bangladeshis or Argentines - but at the moment, this is an exclusively theoretical, speculative scenario.
Read more details on the topic in our article "Non-existent plan: What Trump thinks about war in Ukraine and how Zelenskyy prepares."
According to the RBC-Ukraine sources, the specifics of "Donald Trump's plan for Ukraine" remain unknown at this point. However, Trump's team reportedly aims to finalize a plan by his January 20 inauguration, enabling swift implementation upon assuming full authority.
Earlier, Western media shared various interpretations of Trump's potential plan. For instance, The Telegraph wrote that Trump might call on European and British forces to establish a 1,200-km buffer zone between Ukrainian and Russian troops.
