Military leaders discuss Ukraine peacekeeping force as partial ceasefire plans in progress [Video]

Senior military officers from countries across Europe and beyond met Thursday outside London to flesh out plans for an international peacekeeping force for Ukraine as details of a partial ceasefire are worked out.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he didn’t know whether there would be a peace deal in the Russia-Ukraine war, but “we are making steps in the right direction” as a “coalition of the willing” led by Britain and France moves into an “operational phase.”

“We’re further forward this week than we were last week, and we are further forward last week than we were the week before,” he said before the meeting of military planning chiefs from more than two dozen countries. “I hope, I want, those talks to succeed. What I do know is if they do succeed, then we need to be able to defend the deal.”

Ukraine and Russia agreed in principle Wednesday to a limited ceasefire after U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with the countries’ …