Ten European countries, including Ukraine, announce a joint ballistic missile defense coalition

Source: Élysée Palace

Ten European countries, including Ukraine, have announced the creation of an integrated ballistic missile defense coalition.

Along with Ukraine, the group includes the United Kingdom, Norway, and seven EU member states: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark.

The coalition plans to build an integrated missile defense architecture to deter future missile threats. The new framework will complement the missile defense systems already in place across Europe.

In the first phase, the coalition’s members plan to form technical working groups and begin drafting a road map for evaluating what the group can do together operationally.

European countries have spent recent months weighing ways to restructure their own security arrangements as relations with Washington deteriorate and Donald Trump threatens to pull the United States out of NATO. Within the European Union, there is a push to depend less on Washington for defense, especially given the prospect of a direct conflict with Russia.

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