French soldiers during live fire excercises in Cincu, Romania
Martin Fornusek, Alex Cadier – Yahoo News April 11, 2025
Only six countries have said so far that they are ready to deploy troops to Ukraine as part of the international “coalition of the willing” in case of a ceasefire, AFP reported on April 10, citing undisclosed European officials.
The U.K., France, the Baltic nations, and another unnamed country stand ready to send their soldiers, while other leaders want to see a more detailed plan before making commitments, according to the news agency.
AFP’s figure suggests that the number of willing countries is much lower than earlier reported. On April 9, Bloomberg wrote that 15 nations are open to sending their troops.
The British- and French-led coalition’s meeting in Brussels on April 10 shed further details on the so-called reassurance force. U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey explained that the troops would be primarily tasked with strengthening Ukraine’s military rather than operating as a traditional peacekeeping force separating the two belligerent sides.
In spite of this, many leaders of some 30-member strong coalition require more flashed out mission details.
“What is the mandate? What would we do in the different scenarios, for example, if there would be any escalation regarding Russia?” Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said, according to AFP.
Coalition members unwilling to commit ground troops have been reportedly asked to provide other types of support, including intelligence, arms, or naval forces.
Speaking to the Kyiv Independent in Brussels on April 11, Brekelmans said that the allies “must all clearly define together what the exact role is of the European engagement.”
Lithuania’s Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene told the Kyiv Independent that the plan is at the stage of “intense” political and military debates and planning.
Another major hurdle is the U.S. participation, which London sees as a necessary condition for effective deterrence against Russia.
U.S. President Donald Trump‘s administration has signaled intent to reduce U.S. military presence in Europe and ruled out sending troops as part of the reassurance force. London and Paris are seeking to convince Washington to at least provide airpower or intelligence support but have so far failed to extract any commitments.
“It’s important to have the United States on board, they are playing a key role now in negotiations, they will always play a key role in European security,” Brekelmans told the Kyiv Independent.
“But regarding their exact role, and their exact position, there are many different options, and they need to be well-connected to the overall plan.”
“Our goal is to achieve that the United States would monitor how the agreement on ceasefire, if it is achieved, is being kept, because we understand that Russia has never kept any agreement,” Sakaliene said.
Since taking office, Trump has sought to broker a peace deal in Ukraine while resuming direct communications with Moscow. The efforts to negotiate a ceasefire have largely stalled as Russia rejected a full 30-day truce backed by Kyiv and repeatedly violated the partial halt on strikes against energy infrastructure.
I shouldn’t be commenting on this completely daft story.
I fact, these proposals are designed to prevent any ceasefire or peace deal. This threat, has been answered by the Russians. Any NATO forces, in any capacity, deployed in UKraine, will be legitimate targets of war. It’s never going to happen, and the fact is, Putin is likely to dramatically escalate the war in UKraine and will make targeting NATO facilities ‘routine’, & not now and then.
Before Donald Hitler entered the White House, the Nazi US political elites had no contact with Russia. Maybe some very low level stuff, but the Pentagon has always had ongoing relations with Russia, so there are rams in the Pentagon who know where the Russians stand, and I’m sure Donald Hitler knows all about this, and hence his confession during Zelensky’s Oval Office drubbing, that ‘we ‘must’ have peace, or there will be WW3 and nukes’, Donald Hitler admitted defeat.
Putin has an off ramp for Nazi Amerika, but Donald Hitler doesn’t like it, or it’s impossible to dress this in such away the thicko sheeple will buy it.
I have to scoff at these Euro politicos. Europe is being invaded and destroyed by the turd worlders who these treacherous politicos invited here. Yet they want to fight Russia over ‘sovereignty’???
All very jew — don’t you think? Europe gave up it’s sovereignty in 1945.
The four lines introducing the article are not honest: the truth is that the Scum are killing White Britain and White France and White Ukraine, and nothing, for them, has been a failure
They all seem SO confident in their plans, one wonders whether there might be something in it? But to ” peacekeep ” 1500 km of the line of engagement, would take more men than they suggest, and not sure waht Putin would agree to.
They all seem SO confident in their plans, one wonders whether there might be something in it? But to ” peacekeep ” 1500 km of the line of engagement, would take more men than they suggest, and not sure what Putin would agree to.
Just some words on Nico X.
I’ve always suspected him, it, her, AI, bot, unit, team, or whatever if being a deep state troll, and I’ve only replied to some designated Nico X rants, which are mostly C&P jobs.
The path, or journey to truth is a difficult one. There are countless distractions, kinda like dead end railway siding. You never reach a perfect truth. Every stone or corner turned, presents more questions, but it’s worth while, and I’d like to think, that my comments don’t in themselves change minds, but encourages others to look at things differently.
It’s such a shame that this site isn’t updated as often as it used to be, when we had a semblance of debate.
Nixo X consistently offered this nice easy theory that it’s all planned, and everyone is in it together. The ‘whiteoside’ peddles by Nico X is and was a myth. Around 1 million dead in UKraine, but this could’ve been 2 or 3 million dead, and Russia has done everything it can to preserve their forces, and Russia is doing all it can to prevent Iran from killing tens of thousands of Amerikans in the Middle East. Many are white by the way.
Six countries ready to send troops for not very reassuring force.
The mighty French army would be there right now fighting to the last man against those russkies except that they are still trying to push their truck into the garage to get it fixed, while the German army with their fierce female warriors are still trying to figure out how to park the Jeep, meanwhile the fake Ukrainian prez, mr Z, is checking on his bank account before he has to flee.
This is hilarious! Talk about delusional! LOL! FRANCE & BRITAIN??! The biggest Punks on earth? Really? What? They also have the BALTIC states? Oh, that’ll make a BIG difference, eh? At least the US KNOWS BETTER!!
Russia will turn all those punks into cooked hamburger!
The Rothschilds, out of desperation, are ordering their western-ruled Shabbos Goyim to fight for the Jew agenda. I can hardly wait to see them get liquidated!
yes but carl jones is still a stupoid nobhead
Carl Jones–like you, White Elephant wanted to have debate in the comments, and we would all have been glued to the screen getting more fat and abusive