European troops that Britain and France want to send to Ukraine would be deployed to “strategic locations” to deter “Russian aggression”, but should Moscow attempt to re-invade Ukraine again they would have no choice but to “react and respond”.
The Anglo-French led force of predominantly European NATO-member state soldiers that may be sent to Ukraine to observe a ceasefire would be “under attack” in any case of Russia attempting to invade Ukraine again and would respond, French President Emmanuel Macron says.
Speaking in Paris after Thursday’s Ukraine security summit — widely called the ‘coalition of the willing’ talks — President Macron again refined his vision of European involvement in the peace process. Already proposals have been scaled back from a “peacekeeper” force of tens of thousands, possibly even a million-man-army, to what Macron now…
