The Italian government hopes the war in Ukraine will end within a year. Therefore, the deployment of peacekeepers in Ukraine may not be necessary, according to Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has expressed hope that the plan proposed by French President Emmanuel Macron to deploy European forces in Ukraine will not be necessary. Source: a statement by Tajani,

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is planning a second meeting of allies considering sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine as part of any postwar settlement, his spokesman said on Monday.

Sir Keir Starmer will host a virtual meeting of the “coalition of the willing” nations on Saturday at the end of a week of intense diplomatic activity to find a peace deal in Ukraine. The Prime Minister will lead the call with around 20 like-minded allies who have expressed an interest in contributing to or supporting a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine if a deal is reached to end the war with Russia.