France, Great Britain, Germany and other European countries are ready to send troops to ensure a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. About this in an interview Bloomberg said French Finance Minister Eric Lombard.
He expects the US to support European troops to maintain peace after a ceasefire agreement is reached between Ukraine and Russia.
"If we want the ceasefire to hold, we need the support of the US. I believe the Americans have agreed to that," - he said.
Earlier this week, Lombard and French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to Washington to discuss the situation in Ukraine and trade with their American counterparts, including President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant.
"We discussed all issues, trade, tariffs, non-tariff barriers," he said. "We agreed to continue negotiations, which is a step forward."
He added that he and Bessent exchanged cell phone numbers and would meet again in April at the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington.
Lombard is attending the G20 financial leaders' meeting. The US and Argentina decided to skip the event after Trump publicly clashed with his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, over domestic land laws, equality policies and the war in Gaza.
French officials said Lombard intended to reaffirm his country's commitment to multilateralism and project European unity amid Trump's attacks on a world order governed by global institutions that the United States helped create. The United States has already withdrawn from the World Health Organization, the Human Rights Council and the Paris climate agreement.
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