French president, Emmanuel Macronannounced Thursday that 26 countries of the volunteer coalition have pledged to deploy troops in Ukraine or “be present on land, by sea or in the air” to provide security guarantees to kyiv.
In an appearance before the press at the end of a meeting of this group of 35 allies of Ukraine in Paris together with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr ZelenskyMacron insisted that this reinsurance force does not intend to engage in any war with Russia, but “to guarantee peace and contribute very clearly a sign.”
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The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, is aimed at a press conference after the Summit of the Coalition of the Will, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, on September 4, 2025. Photo: EFE/EPA/LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL MAXPP OUT
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The objective of these forces, which would not be in the front line, is to “prevent any new great aggression” and involve those 26 countries “In the lasting security of Ukraine”
Without going into details, Macron said that members of the volunteer coalition They have confirmed “what they were willing to do, each in their function, complementing each other.”
“Now, we will continue this work. In the next few days, we will end it with USA To obtain details about the support they provide, from supervision to the high fire and all these security lines. And then, we will have to formalize political texts, that is, prepare a lasting peace agreement and, without a doubt, a multilateral agreement or a series of bilateral support agreements, ”said the French president.
He also pointed out that the commitments achieved in Paris “They go much further” of the solidarity and support agreements signed with Ukraine to date.
“The advantage of what we are doing here is that it goes much further. It is a military plan that details the contributions that we are willing to make the Ukrainian army and our reinsurance forces. This is already an operational formalization. Now we will work on the legal and political formalization that will be coordinated with a durable peace treaty,” he said.
