Information has appeared in the media that the Prime Minister of Great Britain may offer US President Donald Trump a plan to deploy 30,000 European Union troops in Ukraine. However, according to Maksym Yali, an analyst at the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security, this initiative seems unlikely, UNN writes.
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Based on Russia's statements that it will not agree to NATO representatives being among the peacekeepers, or Russia's agreement to negotiate the deployment of a peacekeeping contingent, as the experience of 2016-2017 shows, this is impossible, so at the moment it seems unlikely.
He also emphasizes that recent statements by French President Emmanuel Macron, as well as Poland, about refusing to send troops to Ukraine indicate that Great Britain itself, which has only 70,000 troops, will not be able to implement this plan.
That is, it is still difficult to understand where these figures came from, given that at the first summit he convened, Macron was mainly devoted to discussing the population of peacekeepers, and there were no agreements, neither from Italy, nor from Poland, nor from most of Ukraine. That is, all this looks only like an attempt to find out the point of view of politicians and society. Therefore, it is premature to talk about the realism of this plan.
Regarding the effectiveness of the plan, Yali believes that it is too early to talk about the realism of this initiative. At the same time, the expert reminded that President Zelensky stated that Ukraine needs 200,000 peacekeepers to ensure peace.
According to Yali, it is currently difficult to predict exactly where the peacekeepers will be located.
Usually they should be deployed along the contact line. But you see, now there are options that in Poltava, in Kryvyi Rih, in Dnipro they will not be located on the contact line.
What is currently known
The details of Keir Starmer's peace plan, according to unofficial information, involve the deployment of a 30,000-strong peacekeeping contingent in Ukraine. These peacekeepers would not participate in hostilities, but would be aimed at protecting strategic cities such as Poltava, Dnipro, and Kryvyi Rih, as well as ports and infrastructure facilities, including nuclear power plants.
European troops could allegedly perform technical monitoring functions, conducting reconnaissance using aircraft, satellites, and drones. In addition, according to the British newspaper The Telegraph, patrolling the Black Sea is planned. Peacekeepers will be equipped with weapons and technical means to repel possible attacks from Russia.
And the United States, at the same time, could provide fighter jets and missiles to protect European peacekeepers and important facilities in Ukraine from Russian air attacks. In particular, we are talking about aviation based in Poland and Romania.
Recall
The CDU/CSU candidate for German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, considers discussions about involving German troops in a possible peacekeeping operation in Ukraine premature.