The Coalition will also help “secure Ukraine’s skies and seas and regenerate Ukraine’s armed forces.”
Following a Coalition of the Willing meeting hosted by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, the Coalition (which includes Canada), expressed its willingness to deploy a “Reassurance Force” to Ukraine when hostilities cease, as well as “secure Ukraine’s skies and seas”.
You can read the full statement below:
“President Macron and Prime Minister Starmer today co-chaired a virtual meeting of a grouping of ‘Coalition of the Willing’ Leaders with the participation of President Zelenskyy.
Leaders convened to discuss support for Ukraine and next steps in peace negotiations following President Trump’s meeting with President Putin in Alaska.
The Leaders reaffirmed their continued support to Ukraine, and praised President Zelenskyy’s desire for a just and lasting peace as he prepares for further consultations with President Trump in Washington DC.
The leaders also commended President Trump’s commitment to providing security guarantees to Ukraine, in which the Coalition of the Willing will play a vital role through the Multinational Force Ukraine, among other measures.
They re-emphasised the readiness to deploy a reassurance force once hostilities have ceased, and to help secure Ukraine’s skies and seas and regenerate Ukraine’s armed forces.
The President and Prime Minister also informed leaders that they would travel to Washington DC tomorrow for a meeting with President Trump, alongside President Zelenskyy.”
As noted in a previous article, the best security guarantee for Ukraine would be NATO membership:
In the absence of NATO membership, security guarantees must be backed by boots on the ground, planes in the skies, and ships in the sea following a ceasefire. Russian promises not to attack again simply cannot be trusted, as Russia has repeatedly promised to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity only to launch invasions of Ukrainian land.
Additionally, the Trump Administration regularly makes promises and claims that don’t match up with reality, so US security guarantees, absent a real presence in Ukraine, are not enough to stake Ukraine’s future on.
Instead, the Coalition of the Willing nations need to have a real presence in Ukraine following the end of hostilities. Canada should participate in this, perhaps with a deployment similar to our presence in Latvia. And as we procure new F-35s and/or another kind of fighter, we can play a role in protecting Ukrainian airspace as well.
Participating in a “Reassurance Force” would be well in keeping with our historical commitment to standing against tyranny and helping to keep the peace. Most importantly, it would greatly reduce the prospect of a future conflict, and show clear resolve from the free world – the kind of resolve that makes dictators think twice about launching brutal wars of aggression.
Spencer Fernando
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I don’t think that Ukraine should get Nato membership. It was part of the deal that they didn’t and why Russia attacked in the first place.
Thank you for your comment Miriam, I appreciate you taking the time to engage in this discussion. I would have to respectfully disagree on this one. Russia invaded Ukraine precisely because Ukraine was not in NATO. Russia would love to reconstitute the Soviet empire, but NATO prevents that by protecting countries like Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Ukraine simply wants the same security those nations possess. And given that NATO poses no offensive threat to Russia, it’s clear that Russia opposes NATO membership for Ukraine because it wants to be free to invade Ukraine again in the future even after a ceasefire/peace deal. We cannot allow Russia to dictate who gets to join a defensive alliance.