Coalition of 26 nations pledge security force for Ukraine; US role unclear [View all]

Source: Scripps News

Posted 5:34 PM, Sep 04, 2025


Twenty-six countries have pledged to form a post-war "reassurance force" for Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday, after a Paris summit of the so-called Coalition of the Willing.

The commitments come three weeks after President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, a summit that produced no ceasefire. Since then, Russia has intensified drone and missile strikes, including an attack last week that killed 23 people, among them a two-year-old girl and her mother.

Macron said the pledged force would not fight Russia but would help guarantee Ukraine's security once the war ends.

"This force does not have the will or the objective of waging war against Russia," Macron told reporters in Paris. "But it must guarantee peace and provide very clear strategic signaling. It will be deployed within the framework of a ceasefire, not on the front line — to prevent any new major aggression and to involve the 26 states very clearly in the lasting security of Ukraine." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed the commitments but said guarantees must be binding.

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