The comments made Monday evening by Emmanuel Macron on a possible sending of Western troops to Ukraine have continued to provoke reactions.
Asked to clarify the presidential speech, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal repeated this Tuesday on RTL that “we cannot exclude anything in a war” which is taking place “in the heart of Europe” including the sending of ground troops , as Emmanuel Macron mentioned the day before.
“There is no consensus today to send ground troops in an official, assumed and endorsed manner.
But in dynamics, nothing should be excluded.
We will do everything necessary to ensure that Russia cannot win this war,” the French president explained on Monday after an international conference in support of Ukraine in Paris, marking a very clear evolution of his position on the subject.
France cannot envisage that “Russia can win this war”
On the sidelines of a visit to the Agricultural Show, on RTL, his Prime Minister recalled this Tuesday that "two years ago", many countries "ruled out sending weapons" including defense weapons to the Ukrainians .
“Today we are sending long-range missiles to support the Ukrainians in the face of this aggression.”
“So what the President of the Republic recalled is that we cannot exclude anything in a war which once again acts at the heart of Europe and at the gates of the European Union,” he said. -he concluded, believing that Emmanuel Macron “was clear on the subject”.
He repeated that France could not envisage that “Russia could win this war”, that its President Vladimir Putin could “say that he is taking control of another free and democratic country by force”.
Recalling that Sweden or Finland, historically neutral, now wish to join NATO "because they see this threat coming", he added: "I do not want my generation and the generations that come to grow up in a world ( …) threats”.