In a series of interviews with French and American media, Macron praised Trump’s decision to, in the U.S. president’s words, provide Ukraine with a “very good security guarantee.”
“The big change in recent days is that he has acknowledged the need to guarantee Ukraine’s security,” Macron told Paris Match.
What that security guarantee entails is not yet clear, though Macron told LCI that “the British, French, Germans, Turks and others are ready to carry out operations, not at the frontline, not provocatively, but reassurance operations in the air, at sea and on land.”
Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will on Tuesday co-chair a videoconference of the Coalition of the Willing, a loose partnership of Western countries pledging support for Ukraine, “to follow up on yesterday’s meeting in Washington and continue the work begun on the issue of security guarantee,” according to the French president’s office.
Macron told LCI that “the British, French, Germans, Turks and others are ready to carry out operations, not at the frontline, not provocatively, but reassurance operations in the air, at sea, and on land.”
However, Macron cautioned against going for a quick win and taking the Kremlin at its word. He said in his LCI interview that Russia is a “destabilizing force” and a “a predator, an ogre at our door.”