Sir Keir Starmer in Paris on Thursday meeting with the French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss Ukraine.
Marcon said it has been decided they will mandate the coalition’s foreign minister to come up with thoughts as to how the ceasefire could be looked at.
Macron said that the UK and France are to send a delegation team to Ukraine who will work with Kyiv’s armed forces where they will set plans.
Starmer said they will both “task” their “chiefs of defence to ensure that a Franco-British team should be sent to Ukraine in the next few days to work very closely with our Ukrainian partners.”
The chiefs of defence will prepare “the format of the Ukrainian armed forces.”
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Marcon and Starmer will look at “what format is required in terms of the number of soldiers and what equipment and hardware is required in order to respond to future Russian aggression and deter any Russian aggression.
“This will enable us to move forward to a planning phase in order to clarify the contribution of each country that’s a member of our coalition, in order to give Ukraine a clear idea of the very precise action plan we want to put in place.”
Macron said that a “reassurance force” in Ukraine will provide a security guarantee and once a ceasefire agreement has been reached the military teams will deploy.
The French President said the troops will not be on the frontlines but will be deployed to “strategic areas.”
Macron said the “coalition of the willing” will not be involved with the reassurance force, he added “its not unanimous” and “we do not need unanimity to achieve it.”
He insisted, “This reassurance force should not substitute the peacekeeping forces on the contact line or the strong and robust Ukrainian army.”
Starmer said that Putin must give a deadline to get on with a ceasefire and said he is “playing games” to prolong the war so he can take more Ukrainian territory.
The British Prime Minister said that the allies have agreed Europe should “be setting a framework and a deadline of delivering real progress, and that we should hold them to that deadline”.
He added, “We’ve agreed that we must go further now to support the peace process, support Ukraine and increase the pressure on Russia to get serious.”
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