German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has assured that the North Atlantic Alliance and European Union countries will not send their ground troops to Ukraine to take part in the fighting.
“There will be no ground troops on Ukrainian soil, no soldiers sent there by European states or NATO countries,” Scholz was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying.
Earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also said that the alliance had no plans to send troops to Ukraine.
French President Emmanuel Macron said that the possibility of sending Western troops to Ukraine could not be ruled out. The Kremlin then recalled that a direct military conflict between NATO and Russia would be inevitable if Western countries send troops to Ukraine.