Participating nations agreed to form a "coalition of the willing" to send a force to Ukraine to ensure security in the event of a ceasefire agreement with Russia.

Following the summit, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a plan to send “reassurance forces” from “several European countries” to “certain strategic locations” in Ukraine in the event of a peace treaty with Russia.

He said these reassurance forces “are not intended to be peacekeeping forces” as they will not replace the Ukrainian Armed Forces and will not be positioned on the frontlines but instead in "strategic towns" and bases.

Macron said this proposal “will be worked on by their military chiefs of staff” in the coming weeks to determine “the map and format” of the deployments.

Macron also announced the dispatch of a “Franco-British team to Ukraine” to “prepare the format of tomorrow's Ukrainian army" to analyse what sort of equipment Kyiv would need.

Echoing his statements from Wednesday night, the French President reiterated that it’s too early to lift sanctions on Russia.