Bangladesh, Feb. 22 -- Sir Keir Starmer, the British Prime Minister, backed by Paris, is proposing European troops (30,000 of them) be deployed to Ukraine so as to “police” any US-brokered ceasefire agreement. Such proposal is being brought up while US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are planning to meet sometime this month in a step towards settling the Russian-Ukraine conflict. Starmer is also urging Trump to keep American missiles and fighter jets “on standby” in Eastern Europe in case Moscow breaks the terms.

Moscow however already warned, earlier this month, that any peacekeeping force deployed in the region without a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) mandate would be de...