It comes in the week of an extraordinary attack on Zelensky by Trump, who labelled the Ukrainian president ‘a dictator without elections’ for postponing the vote and incorrectly claimed Ukraine started the war with Russia.
Sir Keir Starmer will present Donald Trump with a Ukraine peacekeeping plan when the two leaders meet next week following the president’s blistering attack on Volodymyr Zelensky.
Hours later, Trump hit back online, calling the ex-TV entertainer a ‘moderately successful comedian’ who had done a ‘terrible job’ as president but had played previous US president Joe Biden ‘like a fiddle’.
Trump has not said whether he would back such an operation, but his defence chief Pete Hegseth has already ruled out the possibility of American boots on the ground in Ukraine.
Meeting On The Situation In Ukraine - Paris, France - 17 Feb 2025] The proposed deployment will reportedly number fewer than 30,000 troops – far less than the 200,000 requested by Zelensky in the event of a truce.
