Paris (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – French President Emmanuel Macron said France and the UK are proposing a partial one-month truce between Moscow and Kyiv that would not cover ground combating.
In an interview with the daily newspaper Le Figaro, Macron expressed the truce would cover fighting in the air, at sea and concerning energy infrastructure.
“In the event of a ceasefire, it would be very difficult to verify (fighting) along the front was being respected,”
Macron told Le Figaro, saying that the front line was equal to the distance between Paris and Budapest.
Macron conveyed this to Le Figaro as he flew to the UK for a summit with European leaders, convened by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to increase efforts at drawing up a Ukraine peace proposal.
Will European troops be deployed to Ukraine soon?
Under the Franco-British plan, European ground soldiers would only be deployed to Ukraine in a second phase, Macron stated.
“There will be no European troops on Ukrainian soil in the coming weeks,”
Le Figaro quoted Macron as stating.
“The question is how we use this time to try to obtain a truce, with negotiations that will take several weeks and then, once peace is signed, a (troop) deployment.”
Zelenskiy, was also questioned if he was aware of the project, told reporters in London:
“I’m aware of everything.”
Macron has said his country and other European nations must spend more on defense. He further said to Le Figaro that this might represent 3% to 3.5% of gross domestic product in the region. He expressed that the European Commission also required to be more innovative in financing defense spending.
How does Macron justify strategic ambiguity on Ukraine?
Few days ago, French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his desire to form “strategic ambiguity” by openly examining the idea of dispatching Western troops to Ukraine.
Macron’s comments came after he arranged a gathering of Western leaders to mobilize support for Ukraine. France’s President Emmanuel Macron further said that there was no consensus on grounding troops in Ukraine, but the subject could not be ruled out. “There is no consensus at this stage… to send troops on the ground,” Macron stated. “Nothing should be excluded. We will do everything that we must so that Russia does not win.
