Six countries are ready to send troops to Ukraine
11 April 2025 06:58
Currently, six countries from the Coalition of the Willing, which unites about 30 states, are ready to deploy their troops to Ukraine as part of a peacekeeping mission. This was reported by AFP, "Komersant Ukrainian" informs
On April 10, a meeting of the coalition of the willing, led by France and the United Kingdom, was held at NATO headquarters in Brussels to ensure a ceasefire in Ukraine.
“Our planning is real and substantial. Our plans are well developed,” said British Defense Secretary John Healey, noting that progress has been made in repeated rounds of talks.
European officials say that so far about six countries, including the UK, France and the Baltic states, have said they could provide troops.
The main problem for European allies trying to put together any plan is that they are largely unaware of the U.S. and Russian efforts to end the fighting.
How many peacekeepers are needed to stabilize Ukraine?
Up to 200,000 peacekeepers are needed to stabilize the demarcation line in Ukraine. This figure was voiced by Maria Zolkina, a political expert at the Democratic Initiatives Foundation.
“There is no such number of armed forces in Europe that would allow sending the 200 thousand that Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned to Ukraine. Given the experience of international conflict resolution, in order for a demarcation line as long as in Ukraine to be stable, the initial figure of 200 thousand, which frightened European partners, is close to reality,” Zolkina said.
The expert pointed out that despite the fact that after 2014 Ukraine did not officially ask for or promote the idea of peacekeepers in Donbas, experts still developed such a scenario. At that time, it was said that 30,000 to 40,000 peacekeepers were needed for the then existing demarcation line, which was several times smaller than the one we see now.
According to Zolkina, the European countries with the largest armies could hypothetically send a peacekeeping contingent to Ukraine. These are Germany, France and Poland. This is especially true of official Warsaw, which has rapidly “built up” its army over the past few years and increased the number of troops from 100,000 to more than two hundred. Moreover, Poland plans not to stop there in the foreseeable future.
“It is Poland that will face a more than serious choice: how to send a significant part of its army on an international mission to Ukraine, if NATO is not likely to stand up for Polish territory in the event of aggression (against official Warsaw – ed.),” Zolkina emphasized.
Thus, she emphasized that even countries that have the necessary resources will not be ready to make a political decision and separate 30 or 50 thousand troops to send to Ukraine.
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