France will host a second meeting on Ukraine and European security on Monday.
The meeting is scheduled for 4 p.m. local time. European countries that were not present earlier this week, as well as NATO ally Canada, have been invited, diplomatic sources said, Reuters reported.
Norway, Canada, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Finland, Romania, Sweden and Belgium are among those invited, two sources said. The format of the meeting will be hybrid, with the possibility of participation by videoconference, three diplomats said.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday organized an emergency meeting with representatives of countries including Britain, Germany and Italy, as well as NATO and the EU executive.
The meeting is part of an effort to assess what potential security guarantees for Ukraine could look like, how Europe can more quickly increase defense spending and how to speed up processes at a time when the U.S. administration is intensifying diplomatic efforts to end the three-year war between Ukraine and Russia.
Some expressed dissatisfaction that the meeting was intended only for select leaders and not a full-fledged EU summit, EU officials said.
