French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with his US counterpart Donald Trump ahead of a summit of Ukraine's allied countries that began this morning in Paris, the Elysee Palace announced.
According to the French Presidency, the exchange of views took place after Wednesday night's meeting between the French President and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, in which it was announced that France would provide Ukraine with additional aid of two billion euros.
The Elysee Palace also announced that Macron "held brief talks" with Zelensky, as well as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the head of the Atlantic Alliance, Mark Rutte, ahead of the start of the meeting on peace and security for Ukraine, where Portugal will be represented by Prime Minister Luís Montenegro.
The third summit of countries willing to provide security guarantees to Kyiv in the event of a peace agreement with Russia brings together around thirty leaders from the European Union (EU) and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), including the United Kingdom, Canada, Norway and Turkey, but without the participation of the United States.
The aim is to finalize work on "short-term" support for the Ukrainian army, on "a sustainable Ukrainian army model to prevent future Russian invasions" and on "security guarantees that European armies can provide", including ground deployments on Ukrainian soil, Macron said last week.
The summit follows meetings held in Paris and London in recent weeks to provide "security guarantees" to Ukraine, invaded by Russian troops in February 2022, and after Washington announced an agreement with the Ukrainian and Russian delegations for a truce in the fighting in the Black Sea, as part of negotiations in Saudi Arabia over the conflict in Ukraine.
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