Key insights
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Coalition documents set out force management and command: Zelenskyy said the coalition produced a joint declaration and a trilateral declaration, and said it was defined how the forces will be managed and at what levels command will be exercised.
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Proposed deployment framed as non-combat reassurance: Macron said the force would not be engaged in combat and called it a “force of reassurance”.
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Peace deal expected to require compromises: Merz said Ukraine and its European allies will have to accept “compromises” and said there will not be “textbook diplomatic solutions” to end the war.
Takeaways
European allies advanced plans for security guarantees and a non-combat multinational force for Ukraine contingent on a ceasefire, while Russia maintained that a ceasefire requires a comprehensive settlement.
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