Zelenskyy: Military contingent deployment to be discussed at general staff level in Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced a meeting at the level of general staff representatives in Ukraine to discuss the future deployment of a military contingent. Source: Zelenskyy at a press briefing on Friday 28 March, as reported by European Pravda Details: Zelenskyy said that Ukraine reached an agreement with its partners to hold this military-level meeting during the summit of the "coalition of the willing"  in Paris.

Quote: "We agreed urgently - within a week - to hold a meeting in Ukraine with a select group of general staff representatives from key countries that are fully prepared for a contingent on Ukrainian territory." 

Details: The president did not specify who exactly would participate at the meeting but confirmed that representatives from France, the United Kingdom and Ukraine would be present. Quote: "We will show our infrastructure, work with our partners and refine our joint vision. We have agreed that following this, there will immediately be another meeting, not at the military level, but at the level of NSA [national security advisors - ed.].

This will then lead to a final meeting on security guarantees." 

Background:

• The "coalition of the willing", led by France and the United Kingdom, has been working for several weeks on a plan to deploy thousands of troops to Ukraine to ensure a future ceasefire.
• French President Emmanuel Macron stated at a briefing following the coalition of the willing summit in Paris on 27 March that the foreign ministers of Kyiv's allies will prepare legal positions regarding monitoring the ceasefire in Ukraine.

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