French President Emmanuel Macron told the French paper Le Figaro that a British-French plan would begin with a one-month truce between Ukraine and Russia, and any deployment of peacekeeping troops would come only after that.
"There will be no European troops on Ukrainian soil in the coming weeks," Macron said. "The question is how we use this time to try and obtain an accessible truce, with negotiations that will take several weeks and then, once peace has been signed, a deployment.
"We want peace. We don't want it at any price, without guarantees."