Overview
- Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain and France intend to establish bases and guarded storage sites across Ukraine to support its defense needs.
- Starmer stressed the basing and storage plan would proceed only in the event of a ceasefire.
- He said the UK and France will take part in a U.S.-led mechanism to monitor any ceasefire.
- London and Paris also pledged to back long-term deliveries of weapons for Ukraine’s defense.
- The announcement followed a Paris meeting of a so‑called coalition of the willing and was framed as policy intent requiring subsequent agreements and implementation.