The United States for the first time on Tuesday backed a broad coalition of Ukraine¡¯s allies in vowing to provide security guarantees that leaders said would include binding commitments to support the country if Russia attacks again.

The pledge came at a summit in Paris of the ¡°coalition of the willing¡± of mainly European nations to firm up guarantees to reassure Kyiv in the event of a ceasefire with Russia, which invaded its neighbor in 2014 and again at ?full scale in 2022.

Unlike previous coalition meetings, the summit was also attended by U.S. envoys