January 7, 2026

The United States publicly aligned itself with a broad coalition of Ukraine’s allies in supporting future security guarantees designed to deter renewed Russian aggression, marking Washington’s most explicit backing yet of the framework under discussion by European partners.

The commitment emerged from a high-level meeting in Paris of the so-called “coalition of the willing,” a group of mostly European nations working to define security arrangements for Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire with Russia, which first invaded Ukraine in 2014 and launched a full-scale war in 2022.

Unlike earlier meetings, the Paris summit included senior U.S. representatives, among …