(Paris) Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz, Keir Starmer and Donald Tusk will be in Kyiv on Saturday to display their “flawless” support from Ukraine and claim, in the wake of the United States, a “full and unconditional ceasefire” to Russia, according to a joint statement.
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In the aftermath of a show of force from the Russian president Vladimir Putin who received around twenty foreign leaders, including the Chinese Xi Jinping, in the Red Square in Moscow, the leaders of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Poland went for the first time in Ukraine.
“We will continue to increase our support for Ukraine. We will intensify our pressure on the Russian war machine until Russia accepts a lasting cease-fire, “they warn in a joint declaration.
This “historic” qualified visit comes four days after the election of the new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who had already gone to Paris and then in Warsaw Wednesday the day after his inauguration.
In Kyiv, the quartet must hold, alongside the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a virtual meeting with the other leaders of the “coalition of volunteers”, these essentially European Western countries, ready to provide “security guarantees” to Ukraine.
They will thus inform the other countries of “progress made with a view to a future coalition bringing together air, land and sea forces to help regenerate the Ukrainian armed forces after a possible peace agreement and to strengthen trust in future peace”, according to their declaration.
The French president and the British Prime Minister provide the management of this still blurred contours that has already met in Paris and London in recent months.
Europeans go to Kyiv strong with Donald Trump’s call, who pressed Russia on Thursday to accept an “unconditional 30-day ceasefire”. He threatened with new Western sanctions in the event of failure.
