Description: UK’s Secretary of Defense, John Healey, after co – chairing a meeting between the defense leaders of 30 nations, announced a plan which would undertake the deployment of British troops in Ukraine. The meeting between the defense leaders of the 30 nations underscored security plans for Ukraine under the coalition of the willing initiative, primarily spearheaded by the UK and France. Recent intelligence report indications from Denmark, Germany and the UK signaled that Russia might be able to reup it’s warfare campaign within five years. Healey highlighted that the peacekeeping forces would be tasked with protecting ground offensives, maritime security as well as securing Ukrainian skies. The initiative emerges in a crucial time when bilateral talks between the US and Russia were stalled out and offered no constructive resolutions.
Impact: The troop deployment initiative by EU leaders although constructive, is currently unprocurable since it would entangle responses and approval from both the US and Russia. Stalled out negotiations between the US and Russia brought about initiatives such as troop deployment with concrete operational proposals which aim to insert European countries in the peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Russia hasn’t bogged down their maximalist demands which indicates that European troop deployment in the warzone would require detailed diplomatic groundwork. The US led peace initiative led to no results which further poses risk of continued confrontations between Russia and Ukraine. Europe would have to approach resolutions to the war from a different vantage point since the deployment of troops initiative would require reproachment from Russia.