Zelensky named the dates of meetings of the "coalition of willing" in Ukraine and France

A meeting of national security advisers in the format of a "coalition of willing" will be held in Ukraine on January 3. This was announced on December 30 by President Vladimir Zelensky.

"[Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine] Rustem Umerov has just reported on an agreement with the national security advisers of the coalition countries to meet in the near future. We are planning for January 3 in Ukraine," he wrote on his Telegram channel.

He added that a meeting at the leadership level is scheduled for January 6, previously, it will be held in France.

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Earlier, on December 16, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that members of the "coalition of the willing" had prepared a plan to deploy their troops in Ukraine. According to him, representatives of the military departments worked on the development of such a measure, which, as the politician explained, were instructed to develop a strategy for defense in the air, at sea and on land.

On December 16, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, responding to a question about their plans to deploy troops in Ukraine, joked that the "coalition of the willing" had not contacted the direct line.

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