French President, Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said France and Britain are proposing a partial one-month truce between Russia and Ukraine that would not cover ground fighting.
Macron said the truce would cover air, sea and energy infrastructure attacks, adding that the front line was equivalent to the distance between Paris and Budapest.
“In the event of a ceasefire, it would be very difficult to verify (fighting) along the front was being respected,” he said.
The French president spoke as he flew to London for a meeting with European leaders, convened by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to advance efforts at drawing up a Ukraine peace plan.
The summit in London came two days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s White House meeting with US President Donald Trump ended in acrimony.
World leaders have offered a strong show of support to the Ukrainian leader and promised to do more to help his nation.
According to Macron, under the Franco-British proposal, European ground troops would only be deployed to Ukraine in a second phase.
Macron added that his country and other European nations must spend more on defense, stressing that the European Commission also needed to be more innovative in financing defense spending.