"Coalition of the willing": Sky News finds out which states can send peacekeepers to Ukraine after the war is over

A "coalition of the willing" has emerged among NATO countries to send their troops to Ukraine as peacekeepers after the war with Russia ends. This initiative was led by the United Kingdom and France, as stated by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer after the EU leaders' summit on Ukraine. However, he did not mention which other countries would like to join the peacekeeping mission.

According to Sky News, the countries that join this initiative will be able to send their soldiers to act as peacekeepers in Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire. As military analyst Michael Clark explained to journalists, it should be a separate group of states. If they do not act under the umbrella of NATO or the EU, Slovakia and Hungary cannot veto their decisions.

According to Clarke, the group will definitely include France and Britain, as they were the initiators. In addition, he believes that Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia, as well as Finland, may join, as all four countries are members of NATO and share borders with Russia.

The military analyst does not rule out that Italy and Canada will also join the "coalition of the willing." The publication noted that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that his country is "exploring ways in which it can best assist" Ukraine.

However, according to Clark, Poland, Spain and Germany are not going to send their troops to Ukraine as part of a peacekeeping mission. Poland has a long border with Ukraine and Belarus, so it is primarily concerned about its own security. In addition, Prime Minister Donald Tusk confirmed last month that Warsaw has no plans to send its soldiers to Ukraine.

Spain is also unlikely to join the "coalition of the willing," as Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said last month that "it is too early to talk about sending troops to Ukraine."

As for Germany, the situation is still in doubt. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has previously rejected the possibility of sending German troops to Ukraine as peacekeepers, and his future successor, Friedrich Merz, has not yet expressed his position on this initiative.

As reported by OBOZ.UA, the day before, Keir Starmer said that at the summit in London on March 2, "a number of countries" expressed a desire to be part of the plan to ensure peace in Ukraine. Britain, France and other countries want to prepare a plan to stop the fighting in Ukraine and present it to the United States.

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