European defence ministers show united front in support for Ukraine

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00:00Defence ministers from five major military European powers, France, Germany, Italy, Poland

00:14and Britain met on Wednesday in Paris to discuss a new security framework for Ukraine as a

00:21response to the rapprochement between the US and Russia.

00:25This meeting came a day after 34 military chiefs from NATO countries as well as Japan

00:31and Australia met in the French capital in rare and confidential talks without their

00:39US counterparts.

00:40French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu said during a press conference on Wednesday

00:46evening that at this stage, 15 countries are interested in continuing this process of developing

00:53this new security framework.

00:56France and Britain have been leading the charge to try to shore up as much support as possible

01:02for Ukraine since the US have started to pull back.

01:06Lecornu also announced that a new meeting will be held in two weeks with more defence

01:12ministers and without the US present in order to come up with more concrete proposals on

01:19security guarantees in Ukraine.

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