Member of Ukrainian Parliament Oleksiy Goncharenko says U.S. support for Ukraine is crucial to supporting a lasting peace, and that much of the funding the Trump administration has been deriding was approved by the U.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte discussed the importance of security guarantees for Kyiv in any discussion of a settlement of the nearly three-year-old war against Russia.

NATO chief Mark Rutte said that any European security guarantees for Ukraine in a potential peace agreement with Russia would require backing from

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday that there must be a U.S. security commitment for European countries to send postwar peacekeeping forces to Ukraine and it was too early to say how many British troops he would be willing to deploy.

Ukraine must have reliable security guarantees in any ceasefire deal to prevent another invasion by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly said, according to Sky News.