The answer is intended to be unequivocal.
While French President Emmanuel Macron raised the specter of sending ground troops to Ukraine, the United States assured Tuesday that it will not send soldiers to fight on Ukrainian soil.
“President Biden has been clear that the United States will not send troops to fight in Ukraine,” National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said.
The president believes that “the path to victory” will go through military aid currently blocked by Congress, she added.
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For his part, asked whether the United States was also ruling out sending soldiers to Ukraine for training purposes, for example, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller was categorical: “We do not we are not going to send troops on the ground in Ukraine.
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The question of voting for new financial aid
The American president on Tuesday alerted Congressional leaders of the “terrible” cost of not passing new financial aid of $60 billion for Ukraine.
“As far as Ukraine is concerned, I think the need is urgent,” he said from the Oval Office of the White House, where he received officials from the House of Representatives and the Senate on Tuesday.
The “speaker” (president) of the House, Republican Mike Johnson, refused to submit the text to a vote, which was approved by the American Senate.