{"id":4575,"date":"2025-04-01T00:03:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T00:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/zelensky-starmer-plan-meeting-on-ukraine-peacekeeping-force\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T00:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T00:03:58","slug":"zelensky-starmer-plan-meeting-on-ukraine-peacekeeping-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/zelensky-starmer-plan-meeting-on-ukraine-peacekeeping-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky, Starmer plan meeting on Ukraine peacekeeping force"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2177726362.jpg\" alt=\"Zelensky, Starmer plan meeting on Ukraine peacekeeping force\"><\/p>\n<p>President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer about coordinating steps for Ukraine&#8217;s security, including a future meeting about peacekeeping troops, in a phone call on March 31. <\/p>\n<p>Starmer, along with French President Emmanuel Macron, has been leading Europe&#8217;s efforts to provide security guarantees for Kyiv in anticipation of a future ceasefire deal with Russia. <\/p>\n<p>In a phone call March 31, Zelensky and Starmer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/news\/rozvitok-podij-koordinaciya-spilnih-krokiv-i-zbilshennya-spi-96957\"><strong>discussed<\/strong><\/a> plans to convene military representatives from the &#8220;coalition of the willing,&#8221; a group of countries that have pledged to contribute <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/peacekeepers\/\"><strong>peacekeeping<\/strong><\/a> troops and other security assurances, at a meeting in <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\"><strong>Ukraine<\/strong><\/a> later this week. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are preparing a meeting between our military representatives for the preparation of contingents,&#8221; Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/V_Zelenskiy_official\/13731\"><strong>said<\/strong><\/a> via his official Telegram channel. <\/p>\n<p>Starmer also shared with Zelensky details about his recent conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump. Starmer and Trump agreed to keep up <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/starmer-trump-agree-to-keep-up-collective-pressure-on-putin\/\">&#8220;collective pressure&#8221;<\/a> <\/strong>on Russian President Vladimir Putin during a phone call on March 30. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We appreciate the U.K.&#8217;s position regarding pressure on Russia \u2014\u00a0pressure must be strong enough to prevent the Russians from expanding this war,&#8221; Zelensky said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the more so now, as Moscow blatantly makes a mockery of our partners&#8217; efforts to advance a peace agenda \u2014 with constant new drone attacks and relentless, brutal shelling.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Starmer has said that the <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/europe-developing-coalition-of-the-willing-to-back-ceasefire-in-ukraine-starmer-says\/\"><strong>coalition of the willing<\/strong><\/a> will include &#8220;planes in the air and boots on the ground&#8221; to reinforce the Ukrainian military following a ceasefire agreement. While Downing Street announced on March 17 that the plan had moved into the &#8220;operational phase,&#8221; both U.K. and<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1903207340696014945?t=3276\"><strong> U.S. officials<\/strong><\/a> have <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/starmers-coalition-of-the-willing-ukraine-plan-dismissed-as-political-theatre-telegraph-reports\/\"><strong>criticized the idea<\/strong><\/a> as underdeveloped and unrealistic. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-bookmark-card\"><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/unless-you-act-its-just-rhetoric-baltics-skeptical-of-western-european-leadership\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-title\">Unless you act, \u2018it\u2019s just rhetoric\u2019 \u2014 Baltic states skeptical of Western European leadership<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-description\">As the U.S. chooses an increasingly hostile posture toward Europe, the U.K. and France have been gearing up to lead the continent\u2019s defense without Washington. French President Emmanuel Macron has coined the term \u201cstrategic autonomy,\u201d which envisions a self-sufficient Europe that can defend itself\u2026<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-metadata\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kg-bookmark-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.kyivindependent.com\/content\/images\/size\/w256h256\/format\/png\/2023\/03\/K-new.svg\" alt=\"Zelensky, Starmer plan meeting on Ukraine peacekeeping force\"><span class=\"kg-bookmark-author\">The Kyiv Independent<\/span><span class=\"kg-bookmark-publisher\">Martin Fornusek<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2183548591-4.jpg\" alt=\"Zelensky, Starmer plan meeting on Ukraine peacekeeping force\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8211; https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/ukraine\/rss\/<\/p>\n<p>This article appeared on the websitekyivindependent.com<br \/>\nThis article is taken based on Law no. 8\/1996 of Romania. News does not enjoy copyright, so they can be taken, this is our right to take news and information in its entirety and distribute them further. The content was made available to us through the rss mechanism<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/zelensky-starmer-plan-meeting-on-ukraine-peacekeeping-force\/\">Original Content<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer about coordinating steps for Ukraine&#8217;s security, including a future meeting about peacekeeping troops, in a phone call on March 31. 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