“ Coalition of voluntary nations ” to meet each week to discuss troops in Ukraine – Zelensky

President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that the group “Coalition of the Willing” led by the United Kingdom on troop deployments in Ukraine will have regular meetings in the coming weeks to determine the details.

A British and French delegation visited kyiv on Friday April 5 and met senior Ukrainian officials to continue talks about sending a European force for peacekeeping during the first meeting of this kind in Ukraine.

Zelensky, addressing journalists on Friday after the meeting, said that the mission format could be finalized “in about a month”, where discussions include the presence of troops “on the ground, in the air and at sea”.

“We discuss the presence on the field, in the air and at sea, as well as the air defense. And other delicate questions. We will meet each week, and I think that we will meet each week at the level of our (high) military personnel. Where, in which the places – this is discussed separately,” said Zelensky, according to the new local Ukrainka Pravda.

Zelensky referred to a basic consensus on deployment, but said that there were “sensitive geographic problems” that require support.

Zelensky added that the Ukrainian side was represented by Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky, Chief of General Staff Andriy Hnatov, deputy chief of the presidential office Pavlo Palisa and Deputy Minister of Defense Yevhen Moisiuk.

Great Britain and France defended the initiative to send a European peacekeeping mission to Ukraine, an idea that Moscow opposed vocally.

Several European nations, such as Ireland, Denmark and Chechy, have expressed their support for the idea.

The next meeting of the “Coalition of the Will” between the Ministers of the Defense of the Nations is expected to take place in Brussels on April 10.