"NATO allies are providing unprecedented support to Ukraine. We have been doing this since 2014 and have intensified it after the large-scale invasion" by Russia.
“But there are no plans for NATO combat troops on the ground in Ukraine.”
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said this to the Associated Press regarding the hypothesis, raised yesterday by Emmanuel Macron, of sending Atlantic Alliance soldiers to Ukraine.
At a summit in Paris, called by French President Emanuel Macron to close ranks on Ukraine, the idea of sending Western troops to Ukraine garnered no enthusiasm.
The President of Poland Andrzej Duda tells it, as reported by RBC-Ukraine, citing Polish radio.
"The most heated discussion - says Duda - took place around the question of sending soldiers to Ukraine. And here too there was absolutely no agreement".
The French Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, interviewed today by RTL radio, declared that nothing can be "ruled out in a war" taking place "in the heart of Europe", including the sending of ground troops, as evoked by President Emmanuel Macron. Last night at the end of the Paris Conference on Ukraine Macron said that the sending of Western troops to Ukraine cannot "be ruled out". "Today there is no consensus to officially send , hired and approved, troops on the ground.
But nothing should be excluded.
We will do everything necessary to ensure that Russia cannot win this war,'' the French president declared.
Words reiterated today by the prime minister.
''Two years ago'', Attal recalled, numerous countries ''ruled out sending weapons'' to the Ukrainians.
''Today we are sending long-range missiles to support Kiev in the face of this aggression''.
"So - continued Attal in an interview on the sidelines of the Paris Agricultural Show - what the president recalled is that nothing should be ruled out in a war which, once again, is taking place in the heart of Europe and at the gates of the Union European Union''. On this point Macron was ''clear'', Attal continued, reiterating France's position according to which ''Russia cannot win this war'' and President Vladimir Putin cannot afford to be able to '' 'take control of another free and democratic country by force''. Recalling that Sweden or Finland, historically neutral, have decided to join NATO because ''they feel this threat coming'', Attal finally expressed a hope for the future: ''I don't want my generation and subsequent generations to grow up in a world of threats''.
“It seems that Macron's incontinence in speaking has become a persistent and painful problem.”
This was stated today by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, commenting on the French president's statements according to which it might be necessary to send Western troops to Ukraine.
Macron, Medvedev writes on his Telegram channel, "does not take care of himself".
"Or - he adds - it's time to change your diet: oysters and champagne are fine, but you're no longer a kid. Verbal enuresis at his age is dangerous."
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