The US has asked European capitals to provide detailed proposals on the weaponry, peacekeeping troops and security arrangements they could provide Ukraine with as part of any security guarantees to end its war with Russia.

A number of European countries are secretly developing a plan to send a joint military contingent to Ukraine in order to "ensure the implementation" of the future peace agreement with Russia.

Increasingly alarmed that U.S. security priorities lie elsewhere, a group of European countries has been quietly working on a plan to send troops into Ukraine to help enforce any future peace