Western leaders have held talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris over the prospect of providing security guarantees in the event of a peace deal with Russia.

The summit in Paris on Thursday brings together leaders from Europe, Australia, Japan and Canada, as well as Zelenskyy and United States envoy Steve Witkoff. Even as negotiations over a ceasefire continue to stall, however, the bid to agree security guarantees for Kyiv remains mired in uncertainty.

The summit is expected to discuss the number of troops those countries included in the “coalition of the willing” could commit, to make sure any agreement between Russia and Ukraine would hold.

However, President Donald Trump’s continued reluctance to commit troops, and Russia’s opposition to the deployment of forei

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