President Volodymyr Zelensky had met on April 5 with British Admiral Antony Radakin and French Common Thierry Burkhard who head the Defence Workers of their respective nations.

"There’s tangible progress and preliminary particulars on how the associate safety contingent is perhaps deployed," Zelensky mentioned.

Zelensky additionally thanked the "U.Okay. and France for his or her management" in bringing collectively nations that might be open to deploying troops to Ukraine to observe a possible ceasefire.

On March 27, French President Emmanuel Macron hosted a summit in Paris the place quite a few European nations moved ahead with plans to ship troopers to Ukraine as a part of a "reassurance drive" in case of a ceasefire with Russia.

In mid-March, U.Okay. Prime Minister Keir Starmer offered plans to ship 10,000 peacekeeping troops to Ukraine, which is considerably smaller than the 30,000 troops he reportedly pitched to U.S. President Donald Trump throughout their White Home assembly on Feb. 20.

Although Starmer nonetheless publicly held out for a coalition deployment to be supported by a U.S. "backstop," Macron mentioned that it might happen "with or with out" Washington's involvement.

Russian attack on Kryvyi Rih kills 19 people, including 9 children, injures 68Russia’s missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on April 4 killed 19 people, including nine children, according to local authorities. Sixty-eight people were reportedly injured.The Kyiv IndependentThe Kyiv Independent news desk