Proposed US ceasefire solely a ‘momentary respite’ for Ukraine, ‘imitates peace actions,’ senior Kremlin aide says
Senior Kremlin overseas coverage adviser Yuri Ushakov has been talking in the previous few minutes on the US proposal, stressing quite a few Russian points concerning the plan.
We’re getting some key traces from his speech, by way of Russian information companies Ria and Tass.
He mentioned:
Russia seeks long-term settlement that takes its pursuits and issues into consideration;
Proposed ceasefire is nothing greater than momentary respite for Ukrainian forces;
‘Nobody wants steps that simply imitate peace actions’ in Ukraine;
Ukraine becoming a member of Nato can’t be mentioned within the context of disaster decision;
Russia hopes the US will bear in mind its calls for.
He mentioned he handed on his issues to the US negotiators, too.
Key occasions
Proposed US ceasefire solely a ‘momentary respite’ for Ukraine, ‘imitates peace actions,’ senior Kremlin aide says
German parliament set to debate Merz’s ‘bazooka’ proposals, constitutional modifications
Early indicators from Russia on US ceasefire proposal ‘unsatisfactory,’ Polish PM Tusk says
Finland indicators new defence cooperation cope with Ukraine, sends €200m support
Talks with US on Ukraine proposals potential ‘as early as at the moment,’ Russian overseas ministry spokesperson says
Putin ‘might have worldwide name’ later, Kremlin says
Italy’s Campi Flegrei hit by 4.4-magnitude earthquake
Morning opening: What do you assume, Mr Putin?
Russia says it downed 77 Ukrainian drones in a single day
G7 ministers to satisfy in Canada on Thursday
Poland requires US to switch nuclear weapons to its territory as a deterrent – report
A number of Ukrainian cities below assault Thursday morning, one killed in Kherson
Russian operation in Kursk is in closing stage, Kremlin claims, as US negotiators head to Moscow
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German parliament set to debate Merz’s ‘bazooka’ proposals, constitutional modifications
A common view of the Plenary Corridor on the German Bundestag, earlier than the assembly to debate a €500-billion infrastructure fund and a revamp of borrowing guidelines aimed toward modernizing the army and stimulating financial development forward of the formation of a brand new parliament at finish of March, in Berlin, Germany. {Photograph}: Lisi Niesner/Reuters
The German parliament is about to open a particular session to debate proposals on reforming the constitutional debt brake and new multi-billion spending packages for defence and infrastructure.
The proposal, put ahead by the conservative CDU/CSU events and their probably coalition companions within the subsequent authorities, the SPD, will likely be debated at the moment – nonetheless within the outdated Bundestag! – alongside two various plans put ahead by opposition events.
However the problem Merz has set himself in attempting to shoehorn the laws into this tight timeframe contains nonetheless having to win over the Greens to the plan to vote with them if they’re to have any probability of securing the required 2/3 majority to go the modified. The occasion despatched blended indicators as to their intentions, with negotiations reportedly nonetheless happening late final night time…
He’ll hear from presumed subsequent chancellor Friedrich Merz, and senior representatives of different events at the moment as they focus on the deserves of the proposal.
There isn’t a lot time: after at the moment’s debate, the parliament is predicted to satisfy once more subsequent Tuesday, 18 March.
The method must be wrapped up earlier than Germany’s new parliament, elected final month, is ready to convene on 25 March.
Early indicators from Russia on US ceasefire proposal ‘unsatisfactory,’ Polish PM Tusk says
Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has mentioned that early indications from Russia as to its reply to the US proposal for a 30-day ceasefire are “as anticipated … , to place it mildly, unsatisfactory, to not say cryptic and mysterious.”
“In fact, nobody actually is aware of if Russia accepts the early proposal … or will it maintain developing with situations which aren’t acceptable for different companions,” he mentioned.
Tusk spoke with reporters upon his return from talks with Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara, the place the 2 mentioned Turkey’s involvement in any safety ensures for Ukraine sooner or later.
Tusk continued:
It’s good that after the talks in Saudi Arabia, there isn’t a doubt not solely as to who’s the aggressor and who’s the aggressed, but additionally who actually needs a truce and peace, and who needs to proceed the conflict.
However he added he remained hopeful that the US, Ukrainian and European diplomatic efforts will result in the tip of the conflict.
Tusk additionally publicly commented on the Polish president Andrzej Duda’s name for US to switch nuclear weapons to its territory as a deterrent.
“The borders of Nato moved east in 1999, so 26 years later there must also be a shift of the Nato infrastructure east. For me that is apparent,” Duda mentioned in an interview with the Monetary Occasions (£).
Tusk mentioned he had doubts concerning the effectiveness of any appeals made via the media, and he would reasonably see related requests be made “when now we have confidence or have causes to imagine that such appeals will likely be listened to.”
Requested if Duda’s proposal was consulted with the federal government, he declined to remark additional.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (R) and Polish prime minister Donald Tusk (L) attend a press convention after their assembly in Ankara, Turkey. {Photograph}: Necati Savaş/EPA
Listening to Russian overseas ministry’s spokesperson Maria Zakharova it doesn’t seem to be the Russian purple traces are getting any softer…
In the previous few minutes, she has mentioned that any peacekeeping deployment of western troops or constructing bases in Ukraine can be “unacceptable,” imply direct involvement into the battle with Russia, and it might reply with “all obtainable means.”
Finland indicators new defence cooperation cope with Ukraine, sends €200m support
Finnish Minister of Defence Antti Hakkanen on the Karelian Brigade of the Defence Forces in Vekaranjarvi close to Kouvola, in Finland. {Photograph}: Tomi Hanninen/EPA
In the meantime, Ukraine signed a brand new memorandum of understanding on defence cooperation with Finland on Thursday, which incorporates provisions on information sharing, ammunition manufacturing, and joint defence initiatives.
Finland’s defence minister Antti Häkkänen mentioned that the settlement builds on the help given to Ukraine during the last three years, as Finland “shares the identical view of the Russian risk in gentle on our historic experiences.”
“This memorandum of understanding is a sign that we need to additional increase and deepen this cooperation for the advantage of each international locations,” he mentioned.
Individually, Finland additionally introduced a brand new €200m support package deal for Ukraine, pending closing approvals, which can improve the overall worth of the nation’s support to €3.3bn.
Talks with US on Ukraine proposals potential ‘as early as at the moment,’ Russian overseas ministry spokesperson says
Russian overseas ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova mentioned Russia was prepared to speak to the USA a few peace initiative mentioned between the US and Ukraine, and contacts might happen as early as Thursday, Reuters reported.
After talks with prime US diplomats in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, Ukraine mentioned it was prepared to simply accept a 30-day ceasefire and the USA mentioned it was placing the proposal to Moscow.
“We’re prepared to debate the initiatives set on the market in future contacts with the USA. Such contacts are already potential as early as at the moment,” Zakharova mentioned.
The Kremlin mentioned earlier that US negotiators had been flying to Russia. It mentioned Kremlin overseas coverage adviser Yuri Ushakov and US Nationwide Safety Adviser Mike Waltz had spoken by telephone on Wednesday.
Putin ‘might have worldwide name’ later, Kremlin says
We’re getting some information traces out of the Kremlin, confirming that the US has “offered sure data” concerning the proposed ceasefire, and that president Putin “might have a world telephone name later” on Thursday.
No particulars had been supplied on who the telephone name will likely be with, however I believe it’s honest to notice, as Reuters did too, that US president Donald Trump is awaiting phrase from Putin on whether or not he’ll comply with a 30-day truce in Ukraine, in order that’s one potential situation.
AFP added that Putin and Trump’s aides spoke by telephone on Wednesday.
The Kremlin additionally declined to touch upon whether or not Russia had introduced the US with an inventory of its calls for to finish the conflict in Ukraine.
Italy’s Campi Flegrei hit by 4.4-magnitude earthquake
Lorenzo Tondo
International correspondent
Italy’s Campi Flegrei, a extremely seismic space close to Naples, subsequent door to the supervolcano Vesuvius, was rocked by a 4.4-magnitude earthquake within the early hours of Thursday.
In a single day earthquake in Campi Flegrei. {Photograph}: Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse/REX/Shutterstock
The in a single day’s tremor reached the identical depth because the one recorded on 20 Might 2024, which was thought of the strongest within the final 40 years.
After the primary earthquake tremor, six milder ones adopted.
Firefighters intervened within the Bagnoli district, the place a ceiling collapsed inside an condo and one particular person was trapped inside. Inspections on the buildings are nonetheless below means.
Many individuals had been trapped of their houses and needed to exit via the home windows. Alongside the road, quite a few piles of rubble and several other automotive windshields had been shattered. Harm was recorded to the bell tower of the Church of Sant’Anna. Faculties will stay closed at the moment. Many individuals poured out into the streets in panic. Some even tried to enter the previous Nato base to hunt safety. Movies are circulating that present the collapse of a ceiling.
In a single day earthquake in Campi Flegrei. {Photograph}: Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse/REX/Shutterstock
The Phlegraean Fields, the place about 5 hundred thousand individuals stay, have been in a state of unrest (volcanic agitation) for years. Since 2012, the Grandi Rischi fee has decided that the alert stage needs to be raised from inexperienced to yellow primarily based on recorded parameters: a rise in tremors and emissions, and floor uplift. In keeping with volcanologists, the Phlegraean Fields are extra harmful than a possible eruption of Vesuvius.
The 7-mile Campi Flegrei caldera is a a lot bigger volcano than the close by, cone-shaped Vesuvius, which destroyed the traditional Roman metropolis of Pompeii in AD79, and is way more lively.
The supervolcano has been in a stressed state for greater than 70 years on account of a phenomenon often called bradyseism, which scientists perceive to be the gradual motion of a part of Earth’s floor brought on by the filling or emptying of an underground magma chamber or hydrothermal exercise. The final time Campi Flegrei had a comparable burst of earthquakes was within the early Nineteen Eighties.
Campi Flegrei was fashioned 39,000 years in the past after an eruption emptied it of magma. Its final important eruption was in 1538.
Morning opening: What do you assume, Mr Putin?
Jakub Krupa
Ukraine, Europe and the US maintain their breath as they look forward to Russian president Vladimir Putin’s verdict on the US-led ceasefire proposal, already accepted by Ukraine, which might pause the hostilities for 30 days and doubtlessly pave the best way to a extra complete peace settlement.
Russia’s president Vladimir Putin walks alongside a hall as he visits a management centre of the Russian armed forces in the middle of Russia-Ukraine battle within the Kursk area, Russia. {Photograph}: Reuters TV/Reuters
Yesterday, the Russian president targeted on projecting power and energy as an alternative, as he donned army camouflage and expressed hope his military was on the point of “totally liberating” the territory, and advised senior commanders that Ukrainian troopers captured in Kursk needs to be handled as terrorists.
Donald Trump’s particular envoy Steve Witkoff will likely be in Moscow at the moment, with reviews that he may very well be assembly with Putin to debrief him on conversations with Ukraine and to hunt his reply to the plan. His aircraft has simply crossed into Russia from Latvia, and we are going to control this.
In the meantime, European international locations proceed coordinating for a “coalition of the prepared” that might present some safety ensures required to help any peace association, a brief or a everlasting one.
Final night time in Paris, there was a way of urgency amongst European defence ministers, with French armed forces minister SébastienLecornu confirming that about 15 international locations had expressed curiosity in becoming a member of. This morning, president Emmanuel Macron will likely be internet hosting senior French authorities figures to debate what’s subsequent.
Nato’s secretary common Mark Rutte, dubbed by some because the Trump whisperer, will likely be in Washington to speak with the US president.
Individually, we will likely be additionally occasions in Germany with a particular Bundestag seating on the incoming authorities’s plans to reform the constitutional debt break provision. The negotiations on what may be executed right here had been nonetheless occurring late final night time, so let’s see in the event that they discovered a means ahead. Presumed subsequent chancellor, Friedrich Merz, is ready to talk, after all.
Seems to be like a busy day forward for us, so let’s get cracking.
It’s Thursday, 13 March 2025, and that is Europe stay. It’s Jakub Krupa right here.
Good morning.
Suspilne, Ukraine’s state broadcaster, reviews that Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Odesa, and partially occupied Zaporizhzhia had been the Ukrainian areas that suffered in a single day Russian assaults. Ukraine’s army has claimed it shot down 74 of 117 drones in a single day, and that Russia additionally launched an Iskander-M missile.
Russian media reviews that Alexander Lukashenko, the chief of Belarus, has arrived in Moscow.
Russia’s Federal Safety Service (FSB) claims that it has prevented a collection of assaults towards army and civil servants, the Interfax information company reviews. This might not be independently verified by the Guardian.
In keeping with the FSB, “Ukrainian particular companies” deliberate to ship explosive gadgets in parcels by mail.
Russia says it downed 77 Ukrainian drones in a single day
Russia downed 77 Ukrainian drones in a single day, its defence ministry mentioned Thursday, two days after Kyiv carried out its largest direct strike on Moscow throughout the three-year conflict.
Thirty drones had been intercepted and destroyed over the western Bryansk area bordering Ukraine whereas 25 extra had been downed over Kaluga, the ministry mentioned in a press release.
Extra drones had been intercepted over the areas of Kursk, Voronezh, Rostov and Belgorod, it added.
The most recent barrage comes after Russia downed greater than 90 drones within the capital area on Tuesday. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin referred to as it the “most huge enemy drone assault on Moscow”.
Russia mentioned three individuals died and several other extra had been injured in Tuesday’s assault, which noticed it intercept 337 Ukrainian drones throughout the nation.
A number of Ukrainian cities had been additionally below assault Thursday morning, with a 42-year-old lady killed in Kherson, in accordance with regional army administration head Roman Mrochko.
Authorities in Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk additionally reported coming below assault early Thursday.
Extra now on the newest from Kursk.
Some background: Ukrainian forces crossed the Russian border on 6 August and grabbed land inside Russia in a bid to distract Moscow’s forces from the frontlines in jap Ukraine and to achieve a possible bargaining chip.
However a lightning Russian advance over the previous few days has left Ukraine with a sliver of lower than 200 sq. km (77 sq. miles) in Kursk, down from 1,300 sq. km (500 sq. miles) on the peak of the incursion final summer season, in accordance with the Russian army.
“Our process within the close to future, within the shortest potential timeframe, is to decisively defeat the enemy entrenched within the Kursk area,” Putin advised generals in remarks televised late on Wednesday.
“And naturally, we’d like to consider making a safety zone alongside the state border.”
Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Russia’s Normal Employees, advised Putin that Russian forces had pushed Ukrainian forces out of over 86% of the territory they’d as soon as held in Kursk, the equal to 1,100 sq. km (425 sq. miles) of land, Reuters reviews.
A nonetheless picture taken from a handout video offered by the Russian Presidential Press Service exhibits Russian President Vladimir Putin visiting army headquarters within the Kursk area, Russia, 12 March 2025. {Photograph}: Russian President Press Service Handout/EPA
Gerasimov mentioned Ukraine’s plans to make use of Kursk as a bargaining chip in potential future negotiations with Russia had failed and its gambit that its Kursk operation would power Russia to divert troops from its advance in jap Ukraine had additionally not labored.
He mentioned Russian forces had retaken 24 settlements and 259 sq. km (100 sq. miles) of land from Ukrainian forces within the final 5 days together with over 400 prisoners.
Russia’s operation to eject Ukrainian forces from Kursk has entered its closing stage, state information company TASS reported on Thursday citing Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.
Ukraine’s prime military commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, mentioned on Wednesday that Kyiv’s troops will maintain working in Kursk so long as wanted and that preventing continued in and across the city of Sudzha.
The US on Tuesday agreed to renew weapons provides and intelligence sharing with Ukraine after Kyiv mentioned at talks in Saudi Arabia that it was able to help a ceasefire proposal.
The Kremlin on Wednesday mentioned it was rigorously learning the outcomes of that assembly and awaited particulars from the US.
G7 ministers to satisfy in Canada on Thursday
International ministers of main western democracies will meet in Canada on Thursday after seven weeks of rising tensions between Trump and US allies over his upending of overseas coverage on Ukraine and imposing of tariffs.
The Group of Seven ministers from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the USA, together with the EU, meet within the distant vacationer city of La Malbaie, nestled within the Quebec hills for 2 days of conferences that previously have broadly been consensual on the problems they face.
Prime of the agenda for Washington’s companions will likely be getting a debriefing on US secretary of state Marco Rubio’s talks on Tuesday with Kyiv in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the place Ukraine mentioned it was able to help a 30-day ceasefire deal.
US secretary of state Marco Rubio disembarks from a army airplane upon arrival at Quebec Metropolis Jean Lesage Worldwide Airport in Quebec, Canada, 12 March 2025, as he travels to a G7 International Ministers assembly. {Photograph}: Saul Loeb/AP
However within the run-up to the primary G7 assembly of Canada’s presidency, the crafting of an agreed all-encompassing closing assertion has been robust, Reuters reviews:
A US determination to impose 25% tariffs on all metal and aluminium imports instantly drew reciprocal measures from Canada and the EU, underscoring the tensions.
Washington has sought to impose purple traces on language round Ukraine and opposed a separate declaration on curbing Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, a murky transport community that eludes sanctions, whereas demanding extra sturdy language on China.
On Monday, Rubio cautioned that Washington didn’t need language that might hurt efforts to carry Russia and Ukraine to the desk. Chatting with reporters on Wednesday he mentioned a very good G7 assertion would recognise that the USA has moved the method to finish the conflict ahead.
G7 diplomats mentioned the optimistic consequence from Jeddah might no less than ease talks on Ukraine.
The US, since Trump’s return to workplace on 20 January, has taken a less-friendly stance on Ukraine, pushing for a fast deal to finish the conflict, demanded European companions tackle extra of the burden with out brazenly endorsing their function in future talks, and warmed Washington’s ties with Moscow.
Poland requires US to switch nuclear weapons to its territory as a deterrent – report
Poland’s president has referred to as on the US to switch nuclear weapons to its territory as a deterrent towards future Russian aggression, a proposal he mentioned he lately mentioned with Trump’s particular envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg, the Monetary Occasions reported on Thursday.
“The borders of Nato moved east in 1999, so 26 years later there must also be a shift of the Nato infrastructure east. For me that is apparent,” the FT cited Andrzej Duda as saying in an interview.
It will be safer if these weapons had been already within the nation, Duda mentioned.
A number of Ukrainian cities below assault Thursday morning, one killed in Kherson
A number of Ukrainian cities had been additionally below assault Thursday morning, with a 42-year-old lady killed in Kherson, in accordance with regional army administration head Roman Mrochko.
Authorities in Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk additionally reported coming below assault.
Russian operation in Kursk is in closing stage, Kremlin claims, as US negotiators head to Moscow
Russia’s operation to eject Ukrainian forces from the western Russian area of Kursk has entered its closing stage, state information company Tass reported on Thursday, citing Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.
Russian president Vladimir Putin on Wednesday visited Kursk for the primary time since Ukrainian forces seized some territory within the area.
The information comes as US president Donald Trump mentioned on Wednesday that negotiators had been headed to Russia “proper now” for talks on a potential ceasefire with Ukraine, after Kyiv agreed to a 30-day truce.
Trump didn’t give additional particulars, however the White Home later mentioned that his particular envoy Steve Witkoff was going to Moscow later this week.
Trump wouldn’t say when he would subsequent converse to Putin, however added that “I hope he’s going to have a ceasefire.” “It’s as much as Russia now,” mentioned the US president.
A drone view exhibits the centre of Sudzha city as Russian troops reportedly advance within the Kursk area, Russia, on this screengrab obtained by Reuters from a social media video on 12 March 2025. {Photograph}: Social Media/Reuters
Ukraine is more and more struggling on the battlefield, dropping floor within the east and south of the nation, the place officers mentioned eight individuals had been killed on Wednesday.
Russia has additionally reclaimed territory in its western Kursk area, pushing again Ukrainian troops who staged a shock offensive final August.
Putin was proven on Russian tv visiting troops in Kursk on Wednesday.
“I’m relying on the truth that all of the fight duties going through our models will likely be fulfilled, and the territory of the Kursk area will quickly be fully liberated from the enemy,” Putin mentioned.
Russian chief of workers Gen Valery Gerasimov mentioned that 430 Ukrainian troops had been captured and Putin referred to as them “terrorists.”
Ukraine army commander-in-chief Gen Oleksandr Syrsky indicated that some forces in Kursk had been pulling again to “extra favorable positions.”
Opening abstract
Russia’s operation to eject Ukrainian forces from the western Russian area of Kursk has entered its closing stage, state information company Tass reported on Thursday, citing Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.
Russian president Vladimir Putin on Wednesday visited Kursk for the primary time since Ukrainian forces seized some territory within the area.
The information comes as US president Donald Trump mentioned on Wednesday that negotiators had been headed to Russia “proper now” for talks on a potential ceasefire with Ukraine, after Kyiv agreed to a 30-day truce.
Trump didn’t give additional particulars, however the White Home later mentioned that his particular envoy Steve Witkoff was going to Moscow later this week.
Trump wouldn’t say when he would subsequent converse to Putin, however added that “I hope he’s going to have a ceasefire.” “It’s as much as Russia now,” mentioned the US president.
Listed below are the opposite key latest developments:
Ukraine’s military commander-in-chief,GenOleksandr Syrskyi, advised his troops had been pulling again to minimise losses in Kursk. “In probably the most tough state of affairs, my precedence has been and stays saving the lives of Ukrainian troopers. To this finish, the models of the defence forces, if vital, manoeuvre to extra beneficial positions,” Syrski posted on-line, in phrases sometimes used to explain a withdrawal.
Syrskyi mentioned the Russian army was struggling large personnel and gear losses whereas attempting to attain “political good points” by trying to oust Ukrainian troops. Sudzha is the biggest settlement that Ukraine seized in Kursk, and the Ukraine-based Deep State open-source mapping undertaking confirmed earlier on Wednesday that Kyiv was now not in full management of it. “The enemy is utilizing assault models of airborne troops and particular operations forces to interrupt via our defences, oust our troops out of the Kursk area and transfer preventing to the territory of Sumy and Kharkiv areas,” Syrskyi mentioned.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned that Kyiv was doing “as a lot as potential” to guard its troopers. “The Russians are clearly attempting to place most strain on our troops, and our army command is doing what it has to do,” the Ukrainian president advised a press convention in Kyiv. “We’re preserving the lives of our troopers as a lot as potential.”
Donald Trump advised he might goal Russia financially as Ukraine’s president urged him to take robust steps if Moscow didn’t help a 30-day ceasefire agreed between Ukrainian and US delegations assembly in Saudi Arabia. Washington, Kyiv and Europeare ready for Moscow’s response to the proposal, and US envoys are anticipated to carry talks with Putin by the tip of the week. The Kremlin has not publicly mentioned whether or not or not it helps a right away ceasefire. If Putin refuses, Trump mentioned he might “do issues financially that might be very dangerous for Russia”.
Zelenskyy mentioned he anticipated robust measures from the Washington if Russia rejected the ceasefire proposal. “I perceive that we are able to rely on robust steps. I don’t know the small print but however we’re speaking about sanctions [against Russia] and strengthening Ukraine.”
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, mentioned Washington wished Moscow’s settlement with no strings connected. “That’s what we need to know – in the event that they’re ready to do it unconditionally,” Rubio mentioned on a aircraft heading to a G7 assembly in Canada. “If the response is sure, then we all know we’ve made actual progress, and there’s an actual probability of peace. If their response isn’t any, it might be extremely unlucky, and it’ll make their intentions clear.”
The US threats got here because the French defence minister, Sébastien Lecornu, advised a press convention in Paris {that a} ceasefire announcement might come as quickly as Thursday and that Europe must be ready to assist implement it. Defence ministers from Europe’s 5 main army powers – the UK, Germany, Italy, Poland and France – met within the French capital on Wednesday to debate the formation of a “reassurance power” that might assure peace in Ukraine if a settlement was agreed. Lecornu mentioned they had been “hoping to see a ceasefire tomorrow” and that 15 international locations had been prepared to contribute to a power of as much as 30,000 personnel that might completely safe Ukraine’s airports, ports and infrastructure.
