The head of the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky - Andriy Yermak, confirmed today that negotiations are underway to send French and British peacekeepers to Ukraine, Ukrinform reported, BTA reported.
"This initiative is from French President Emmanuel Macron and I think you saw that a few days ago the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom met with President Macron and they discussed this issue," Yermak said in a television interview.
"Today I would not like to go into details. These consultations are ongoing. "I can confirm that these negotiations are ongoing and it is undoubtedly very important that they can become part of certain security guarantees," he said.
Yermak also noted that the main guarantee of Ukraine's security remains full membership in NATO.
Earlier, the British newspaper "Telegraph" reported, citing its sources, that UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed sending their soldiers to Ukraine as peacekeepers after a possible peace agreement, Ukrinform recalls.