NATO and EU leaders to discuss peacekeeping troops to Ukraine
European leaders are planning to meet Wednesday evening in Brussels with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO chief Mark Rutte to discuss peace plans and the potential deployment of peacekeeping forces to Ukraine.
The meeting comes in the wake of pressure from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for European countries to monitor any future peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow by sending troops to Ukraine, five people with knowledge of the meeting told POLITICO.
In addition to Rutte and Zelenskyy, the invited participants include: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Polish President Andrzej Duda, European Council President António Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the people said.
The Polish Press Agency first reported the news. Reuters reported that Italian PM Giorgia Meloni and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer would also participate.
Spokespeople for Scholz, von der Leyen Macron, Costa and Rutte were unable to be reached or declined to comment.
The meeting will be organized on the sidelines of an EU-Western Balkans summit on Wednesday afternoon, for which EU leaders will be travelling to Brussels.
Macron traveled to Warsaw on Thursday to discuss sending peacekeeping forces to Ukraine, but was shot down by Polish PM Donald Tusk.
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