Plans for European NATO troops in Ukraine seen as ‘dead’ – FT

The UK and France continue to back troop deployment despite having no US ‘backstop’ for the proposed plan

By RT International

A Franco-British plan to deploy troops from NATO states to Ukraine following a potential truce with Russia is “dead”, an anonymous official has told the Financial Times.

France and the UK, the leading powers in the so-called ‘coalition of the willing’, back deploying troops to Ukraine, ostensibly as a security guarantee for Kiev. Moscow has maintained that it will not tolerate any NATO member’s presence in Ukraine under any circumstances.

The US has turned down a request by Kiev’s European backers to provide a “backstop” for the proposed mission, with President Donald Trump arguing that America should never have been involved in the Russia-Ukraine conflict in the first place.

The official source told the FT the plan is “preposterous without the help of Trump, and he’s not willing to provide it.”

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