Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Paris, March 11.- French President Emmanuel Macron will receive today in this capital the chiefs of staff of European countries willing to send troops to Ukraine if peace is signed with Russia.
Last week, the president announced this meeting in a televised speech in which he evoked the conflict in Ukraine, accused Russia of representing a threat and addressed the consequences of the change of vision in the United States after the arrival of Donald Trump to the White House on January 20.
Referring to the continuity of Paris' support for Kyiv, despite Washington's decision to directly negotiate peace with Moscow, the leader mentioned the meeting with the military chiefs without offering details of the participants.
He only limited himself to saying that there will be senior commanders from countries that want to assume responsibility for deploying European troops in Ukraine, a scenario rejected by Russia, which warned of the consequences of such an action.
According to Macron, these forces would not carry out combat missions or go to the front, and their deployment would depend on the signing of peace, with the alleged objective of offering security guarantees to Kyiv.
In the last few hours it was revealed that the French Minister of Defense, Sébastien Lecornu, will meet in the coming days with his counterparts in the region to address more precisely the issue promoted by the French president and the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, who on Saturday will organize a virtual conference on the subject.
Today's meeting of Macron with European Chiefs of Staff coincides with the talks in Saudi Arabia of the Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky, and an American delegation headed by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to discuss the end of the conflict.
For the senior Washington official, a ceasefire cannot be agreed without concessions from both sides, in a process that appears complicated given the situation on the ground, marked by Russian progress on the front and the end of US aid to Kyiv as an instrument of pressure. (Text and photo: PL)
