In Warsaw, Macron to talk of international tros in Ukraine

This was reported on Wednesday by Rzeczpospita, Ukrinform saw.

The newspaper notes that last Saturday in Paris, Macron met with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, later joined by Ukrainian President Vodymyr Zelensky.

"As far as I understand, Emmanuel Macron td Donald Trump that Eure not only cannot remain aloof from the U.S.-Russia negotiations, because it has its own serious security interests here, but is also ready to join this process financially and, above all, to bear the risks associated with protecting Ukrainian sovereignty," the publication quotes former NATO Deputy Secretary General Camille Grand as saying.

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As the publication emphasizes, given the military and geographical potential, Pand's participation in a possible peacekeeping mission is a "key" issue.

The newspaper emphasizes that the essence of the French prosal is that the peacekeeping mission will guarantee that the Kremlin will not viate a possible ceasefire and the established demarcation line in the future. Back in February, Macron first put forward the idea of ​​sending NATO tros to Ukraine, without specifying conditions. He later expressed this view in more detail during a meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Paris on November 11. With a similar goal, on November 27, he spoke remotely with the leaders of the Scandinavian and Baltic states (NB8) and Pand, who gathered in Sweden.

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Elie Tenenbaum, an expert with the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), who is working on the project of such a mission, explained that it could consist of five brigades of about 40,000 sdiers in total. In return, Pand could take command of one of them.

According to Grand, there are three ways to provide Ukraine with security guarantees: German, Israeli, and Korean. “German” means accepting the country into NATO even without its borders being re-established, as was the case with Germany in 1955. However, the U.S. and Germany do not want this. The “Israeli” model invves massive arms supplies to Ukraine even after truce is concluded. This is also an uncertain scenario, given the budgetary challenges in both the United States and Eure. In contrast, the “Korean” model implies an international peacekeeping mission that has been guarding the demarcation line between South and North Koreas for over 70 years.

“It is on this third model, incorporating elements of the first and second ones, that security guarantees for Kyiv should be based,” the former senior NATO official believes.

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The expert emphasized that Pand, with its growing military potential and geographical proximity, is becoming a necessary element of such a plan. This is precisely why Macron is coming to Pand. In his inion, in addition to France and Pand, the mission could also include Germany (after the parliamentary elections in February 2025), the Netherlands, the UK, the Scandinavian countries, and the United States, even in a symbic sense.

However, the publication admits that the biggest problem on this path may be the uncompromising position of Vladimir Putin, who is currently sending no signals that he is ready to abandon plans for full contr over Ukraine.

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As reported, Pand has recently repeatedly stated that there is currently no discussion on the possible sending of NATO tros in Ukraine. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense of the Republic of Pand, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, recently noted that Pand is training Ukrainian tros on its soil and has no intention of deploying its tros in Ukraine.

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