NATO Rejects Sending Troops to Ukraine | The French president, Emmanuel Macron, pondered that possibility

NATO and members of the military alliance indicated on Tuesday that they do not plan to send troops to Ukraine to fight against Russia.After the French President, Emmanuel MacronThey announced they were considering it, and Moscow warned it would worsen the conflict.

“NATO allies are providing unprecedented support to Ukraine. We've been doing this since 2014 and intensified after the large-scale Russian invasion, but There are no plans to send NATO combat troops to the country“said Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of the Atlantic Alliance. Germany, England and Spain also disagreed with the idea. Like Sweden, it has cleared the last hurdle to join the alliance.

while, Russia has indicated that sending troops to Ukraine is not in the West's interest. Speaking to reporters in Moscow, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, “This is not in the interests of those countries. The head of the Russian delegation to the talks on military security and arms control in Vienna, Konstantin Gavrilov, warned that the risk of a direct conflict between NATO and Russia will increase. “Conflicts between NATO and Russia will become a direct conflict. The consequences of the risk can be very unpredictable,” Gavrilov explained to the Russian news agency. Sputnik.

“We will do everything necessary to make Russia invincible”

The Russian warning came after Macron announced on Monday that he would form a coalition to send long-range weapons and missiles to Ukraine, and he agreed not to rule out sending Western troops to stop the Russian advance. There is no consensus on that.

“There is no consensus on sending troops today, but nothing should be ruled out; we will do everything necessary to ensure that Russia does not win this war,” Macron declared. His speech at a pro-Ukraine conference in Paris was attended by leaders of more than 20 European countries, as well as representatives of the United States and Canada.

The French president said the new alliance would provide Ukraine with medium- and long-range missiles and bombs and pledged that Russia's defeat was necessary for security and stability in Europe. “We will do everything necessary so that Russia cannot win this war, and I say this with the humility that we must have when we look at the last two years,” Macron argued..

In this sense, he mentioned five categories of activities in which European authorities agreed to invest resources: cyber security, joint production of weapons and ammunition in Ukraine, security of countries directly threatened by Russia and especially Moldova; Ability to support Ukraine in demining operations along its border with Belarus.

Macron insisted that “we need to do more” when it comes to sending military resources to Ukraine. “There are many options on the table like joint lending; priority ammunition, we are determined to reach the end of the available stocks,” he added.

Ukrainian backlash

Ukraine has been on the defensive since the failure of a counteroffensive to recapture territory occupied by Russia, followed by a sharp decline in the military support it had received until then from the United States and other NATO countries. This allowed Russia to regain the initiative and in recent days captured the city of Avdiivka in the eastern Ukrainian province of Donetsk and nearby towns.

The Russian military has occupied more than 300 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory so far this year., Russia's Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, said in a meeting with the armed forces. “After establishing control over the important enemy stronghold of Avtivka, Russian forces have improved their positions in the Donetsk and Kubiansk divisions, taking new heights and positions from the Ukrainian army. Since the beginning of this year, 327 kilometers have been liberated from Nazi forces,” he pointed out.

The Kremlin also said last week Take PobedaA small town five kilometers west of Donetsk, And the city Krinki, located on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River. “As a result of serious and determined actions of our army, the combat capability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been reduced. The enemy has lost an average of 800 personnel and 120 combat machines, including those of foreign production. Beginning of the year.” Shoigu said.

Days after Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky put the number of Ukrainian soldiers killed in the war at 31,000, the Russian defense minister said the number of Ukrainians in the war so far is more than 444,000. Saturday marks two years since the war began in earnest. “After the failure of the counterattack, the Ukrainian military command is trying to stabilize the situation by sending the remaining reserves to prevent the collapse of the front,” Shoigu added, adding that Russia destroyed these with high-precision and long-range weapons. Reserves in the Ukrainian rear.