Prague
\nUkraine will host a meeting of leaders of the so-called \u201ccoalition of the willing\u201d on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
\nEstablished earlier this year and led by France and Britain, the coalition reflects concern among Europeans that the U.S. no longer represents a bulwark of support for Ukraine\u2019s three-year-old battle against a full-blown Russian invasion.
\n\u201cWe need this coalition, and it should be strong enough to guarantee security in line with our common vision,\u201d Zelenskiy said in a video address published by his office in Kyiv.
\nProgress on what role Europe might play in providing post-war security guarantees is proving difficult with the prospect of a ceasefire distant and much dependent on how Russia responds and to what extent the U.S. would support its allies.
\nUkraine is seeking clear security guarantees from allies to safeguard it against any future Russian military action. The coalition has been mulling the possibility of a limited foreign contingent deployment to Ukraine as part of possible guarantees.
\nZelenskiy said on Thursday he had told U.S. President Donald Trump in a telephone call that a 30-day ceasefire was a \u201creal indicator\u201d of progress towards peace with Russia, and Kyiv was ready to implement it immediately.
\nA 30-day ceasefire was initially proposed by Trump in March and Ukraine agreed, while Russia said such a measure could only take effect once reliable measures of monitoring and upholding it were put in place.
\nZelenskiy did not specify which of the leaders was going to come to Kyiv for the coalition meeting, but earlier this week Germany\u2019s new chancellor Friedrich Merz said he intended to visit Ukraine in the near future.
\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that France would take part in a meeting in Ukraine on Saturday. He also said that the meeting would be partly by video and partly via physical presence for participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prague Ukraine will host a meeting of leaders of the so-called \u201ccoalition of the willing\u201d on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Established earlier this year and led by France and Britain, the coalition reflects concern among Europeans that the U.S. no longer represents a bulwark of support for Ukraine\u2019s three-year-old battle against a full-blown Russian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-477632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n