3 March 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said the UK and France were working on a one-month truce in Ukraine “in the air, at sea and on energy infrastructure,” in an interview with a French daily. His comments came after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ended a London security summit with a call for Europe to “do the heavy lifting” in Ukraine. Read our blog to see how the day’s events unfolded.
The truce proposed by France, which Macron says would see Russia and Ukraine laying down arms for a one-month period, was announced last night by the French president.
He told a French paper that it would see a truce between the two warring nations “in the air, at sea and on energy infrastructure”.
Europe’s get together – with Canada as its transatlantic plus one – at Lancaster House was in the diary already before Friday’s flare up in the Oval Office, but it took on a greater significance in its aftermath.
Russia, watching on, teased that this was an anti-Trump gathering. Sir Keir and others were insistent it was nothing of the sort.
What the summit felt like was Europe trying to prop back up the plan for peace in Ukraine, while recognising publicly again that the continent will need the US to be confident the war can end permanently.
Source: France24/BBC
