Deputy Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance Mircea Joane said that the bloc does not intend to introduce troops to the territory of Ukraine.
“NATO does not intend to introduce troops into Ukraine. The Secretary General recently confirmed this in Rome. Ukraine is not even asking us to do so. Ukrainians need additional support and this is our goal at the moment,” Mircea Joane told Tagesspiegel.
According to him, the alliance is trying to avoid escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, but has no plans to interfere in it. He clarified that there is a clear line of demarcation between NATO territory and territory outside the bloc.
“There is a clear demarcation line between the territory of NATO and the territory of non-NATO, the provision on mutual assistance from Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty applies exclusively to the territory of NATO and member states”, – explained the Deputy Secretary General of the Alliance.
We shall remind you that earlier the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, commented on the statements of Western countries about the establishment of a NATO mission in Ukraine. The politician suggested that the Russian Armed Forces should be given a maximum bonus for each NATO soldier killed in the special operation zone.