US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Paris for interviews with European leaders on Ukraine and its future security.
Rubio is joined by Steve Witkoff, the special envoy of American president Donald Trump.
Witkoff and Rubio meet French President Emmanuel Macron and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot. British Foreign Minister David Lammy also participates in the discussions, as well as the German government's foreign policy advisor.
A Ukrainian delegation made up of the presidential advisor Andrii Yermak, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha and the Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov will also participate in the discussions.
Yermak described them as “a series of bilateral and multilateral meetings with representatives of the volunteer coalition states who are able to guarantee security”. The Ukrainian delegation will also meet US officials, said Yermak.
The “coalition of willingly” is directed by Great Britain and France and consists of around thirty countries seeking to set up a force of comfort for Ukraine which is supposed to act as a deterrence against the potential Russian aggression, while having a participation in any future peace agreement.
Thursday's meetings are getting closer to Donald Trump's desire to get closer to Russia as he seeks to negotiate a cease-fire in Ukraine and some of the other movements of his administration, prices on some of his partners closest to rhetoric on NATO and Greenland.
Rubio and Witkoff have helped lead American efforts to seek peace more than three years after the launch of the war. Several series of negotiations took place in Saudi Arabia and Witkoff met the Russian president Vladimir Putin last week.
Moscow has indeed refused to accept a complete ceasefire that Trump pushed and Ukraine approved.
Russia has stopped the mobilization efforts of Ukraine and Western weapons supplies, requests that have been rejected by kyiv.
