Head of French diplomacy Stéphane Séjourné: Westerners had to “consider new actions to support Ukraine” “Some of these actions could require a presence on Ukrainian territory without crossing the threshold of belligerence,” he said. Berlin, London and other European allies of kyiv on Tuesday rejected Emmanuel Macron's comments.

The Kremlin, for its part, judged that it was “absolutely not in the interest of these countries” to send soldiers to Ukraine.