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Front row: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk (L), French President Emmanuel Macron (2nd L), German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (3rd L), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (3rd R), U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff (2nd R), and the U.S. President's son-in-law Jared Kushner (R). Back row: Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store (L), NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte (2nd L), Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (3rd L), European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (3rd R), Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof (2nd R), and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (R), at the Chancellery in Berlin on Dec. 15, 2025. Kay Nietfeld/AFP via Getty Images
Multiple European leaders said on Dec. 15 that the proposed security guarantees for Ukraine should include a European-led peacekeeping force.
The leaders said that any Ukrainian territorial concessions to Russia in order to end the ongoing war between the two countries could be agreed to only after strong security guarantees for Ukraine are in place.
