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U.S. spe­cial en­voy Steve Witkoff met with Eu­ro­pean lead­ers in Paris on Thurs­day to dis­cuss se­cu­ri­ty guar­an­tees for Ukraine, as al­lies seek to en­sure long-term mil­i­tary sup­port for the war-torn na­tion and se­cure con­tin­ued Amer­i­can back­ing af­ter the con­flict ends.

The en­voy, named by U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump to me­di­ate peace talks, al­so plans to meet with Ukrain­ian Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Ze­len­skyy at the Paris talks, an of­fi­cial in Ukraine’s pres­i­den­cy said. The of­fi­cial spoke on con­di­tion of anonymi­ty be­cause they were not au­tho­rised to dis­close in­for­ma­tion to me­dia.

Witkoff was in­vit­ed to par­tic­i­pate in the so-called “coali­tion of the will­ing ” meet­ing to dis­cuss aid for Ukraine, in­clud­ing sketch­ing out plans for mil­i­tary sup­port in the event of a cease­fire in the Rus­sia-Ukraine war to de­ter fu­ture Russ­ian ag­gres­sion.