TOULON (Reuters) -Leaders of some 30 countries that have vowed to provide Ukraine with security support once there is a peace agreement with Russia will meet next week to discuss proposals put forward by their militaries, France’s president said on Friday.

The so-called “coalition of the willing” put together by France and Britain in February has held talks for months at various levels to try and define plans on what they could contribute militarily for Ukraine to deter Russia from attacking it again once there is a final truce.

Those efforts have stalled in recent months as governments have said any European military role in or around Ukraine would need its own U.S. security guarantees as a backstop, but there had been very little sign that the Trump administration would provide those.

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