The United Kingdom said it was ready to send soldiers to Ukraine “if necessary”, before a meeting this Monday, February 17 in Paris of European leaders on the security of the continent at a particularly delicate moment. The American president, Donald Trump, announced last week that he would meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia to initiate negotiations on Ukraine, where the war triggered by the Russian invasion will enter his February 24 in his Fourth year.
While saying that he did not have the project to meet Russian or American officials, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Sunday evening that she had arrived in the United Arab Emirates for a “humanitarian” visit. He said this week that he could also go to Saudi Arabia.
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⇒ The United Kingdom ready to send troops “if necessary”
⇒ Donald Trump assures that he could meet Vladimir Putin “very soon”
⇒ The main European leaders expected in Paris for a meeting in Ukraine
London ready to send troops “if necessary”
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Sunday ready to send soldiers to Ukraine if it was necessary to ensure the security of Great Britain and Europe.
London plays a leading role by supporting kyiv in the war against Russia, which “also means that we are ready and willing to contribute to security guarantees for Ukraine by sending our own troops on the ground if necessary”, wrote British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the daily Daily Telegraph. “I am not saying that lightly,” he added, saying to measure “the responsibility implied by potentially in danger” men and women of the British army. But “helping to guarantee the security of Ukraine is helping to guarantee the security of our continent and the security of the country”.
Keir Starmer has also confirmed that he would take part in the meeting convened in Paris on Monday on European security and Ukraine, and declared that he would meet “in the coming days” US President Donald Trump.
Meeting in Paris between the main European countries
French President Emmanuel Macron will today welcome “the main European countries” for discussions on “European security”, said on Sunday the chief of French diplomacy Jean-Noël Barrot on the radio France Inter. In the process, the Elysee Palace said that this “informal meeting” in the afternoon “would participate in the heads of government of Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, the ‘Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark, as well as the president of the European Council, the president of the European Commission and the secretary general of NATO “.
“The objective is to determine what Europeans can do for themselves given the acceleration that we are experiencing in Ukraine as a result of President Trump’s initiatives,” said an adviser to President Emmanuel Macron, stressing that Europeans had to do “more and better” for their collective safety.
The Munich security conference, which was held from Friday to Sunday, was marked by a hostile speech by the American vice-president JD Vance against the European Union, accused in particular of not respecting the ” Freedom of expression “, and by the confirmation that the Americans were considering negotiations on Ukraine without the Europeans.
Donald Trump assures that he could meet Vladimir Putin “very soon”
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that his meeting with his counterpart Vladimir Putin could intervene “very soon” and that the Russian president wanted the fighting to “stop” in Ukraine.
Questioned by a journalist on the calendar of an interview with the Russian president, announced in Saudi Arabia, Donald Trump replied: “No date has been arrested, but it could be very soon”. These statements by the President of the United States are taking place before talks, also in Saudi Arabia, between a delegation led by its Secretary of State Marco Rubio, currently on tour in the Middle East, and Russian negotiators. “Nothing has yet been finalized,” said Marco Rubio. The Secretary of State added, in this interview on the CBS channel, that these negotiations would be an opportunity to start “a wider conversation which would imply Ukraine and the question of the end of the war”.
“I think he wants to stop fighting,” said Donald Trump, about Vladimir Putin, almost three years after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “We spoke for a long time and firmly,” added the republican billionaire returning to his telephone conversation on Wednesday with the Russian president, who had amazed the European allies of Washington.
To the question of knowing if Vladimir Putin intended to invade all of Ukraine, Donald Trump answered “no”, while displaying more firmness: “This is the question that I asked him, because if he thus proceeds, It would have posed a big problem for us.
Russia says it has killed 90 drones and a Ukrainian missile
Russia said on Monday to have shot down 90 Ukrainian drones, including almost forty over the Azov Sea, as well as a Neptune cruise missile, without reporting victims.
“During last night, anti-aerial defense systems intercepted and destroyed 90 Ukrainian drones,” said the Russian Defense Ministry on Telegram, when the American and Russian presidents, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, say they want to negotiate a settlement of the conflict as quickly as possible.