Zelenskyy and Macron to hold working lunch with US delegation ahead of Coalition of the Willing meeting in Paris - Elysee Palace

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and French President Emmanuel Macron will hold a working lunch with US President's special representative Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner in Paris on Tuesday ahead of a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing in Paris.

According to the published schedule of the French president, Macron's working breakfast with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will begin at 9:30 a.m. (Kyiv time).

Macron's working meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is scheduled for 1:15 p.m.

Later, at 1:45 p.m., a working lunch with President Zelenskyy and the American delegation will begin.

The meeting of the leaders of the Coalition of the Willing is scheduled to begin at 4:10 p.m.

According to the French newspaper Le Monde, 35 countries will participate in the meeting of the Coalition of the Willing, 27 of which will be represented by heads of state or government. NATO and European Union leaders are also expected to attend.

The French president's entourage is presenting this new meeting of the "coalition of the willing" as the culmination of efforts he began deploying about a year ago, after Donald Trump came to the White House, to prevent the United States from "abandoning Ukraine."

A press conference is scheduled for later today, with Presidents Macron and Zelenskyy, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

On Tuesday, the leaders are expected to commit to a shared vision of the "modalities of a future ceasefire" between Ukraine and Russia, how it can be "verified" using "technical means, drones, satellites" rather than by deploying ground military forces, and how they will react in the event of a violation, the French presidency explained.