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French President Emmanuel Macron hosted an emergency summit in Paris, bringing together leaders from six EU countries and the UK. Macron advocates for a "reassurance force", a coalition of peacekeepers stationed behind Ukraine’s future ceasefire lines, to uphold any peace agreement. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed support for such a force, calling for at least 200,000 troops from European states to deter further Russian aggression—an appeal rooted in the absence of NATO membership for Ukraine.