(Reuters) -Wope draws up “pretty precise plans” for a multinational troop implementation in Ukraine as part of post -conflict security guarantees that will support the American capacities, Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said the Financial Time that Sunday.
“President Trump assured us that there will be (a) American presence as part of the Backstop,” Von der Leyen told the FT, adding that “that was very clear and repeatedly confirmed.”
The deployment will potentially include tens of thousands of troops guided by Europe, supported by the US's help, including control and command systems and information and surveillance assets, the report said that this scheme was agreed during a meeting between the US President Donald Trump, the Ukrainian Volodmyr Zelodmyr.
European leaders, including the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, NATO-Secretary-General Mark Rutte and Von der Leyen, are expected to collect on Thursday in Paris, at the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron, to put the discussions at the height at the height of Ukrainian.
(Reporting by Rhea Rose Abraham in Bengaluru, adaptation by Louise Heavens and Ros Russell)
