We are professionals, we know how to operate in the Black Sea, and we will focus on that. Our presence there will be full,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. The President also noted that it is still unclear how many countries from the “coalition of the willing” will be able to provide concrete security guarantees to Ukraine.

Turkey believes a ceasefire must first be secured between Russia and Ukraine before it and other states take any decisions on a peacekeeping mission as part of security guarantees for Ukraine, a defence ministry source said on Thursday.