On Monday, February 26, during a meeting in Paris with European leaders, the dispatch of NATO ground forces to Ukraine was discussed among the questions regarding assistance to Ukraine.

According to the Polish leader Andrzej Duda, this topic caused the most heated discussion.

TSN.ua collected which countries are considering the possibility of transferring their military units to Ukraine, what NATO says about Macron's initiative and how Putin reacted. 

France does not rule out the possibility of sending its troops to Ukraine

President Emmanuel Macron, who is the initiator of this issue, announced that France does not rule out the transfer of its military to the war in Ukraine. 

"We discussed it. Currently, there is no consensus on sending troops. But nothing should be ruled out in this matter in the future. We will do everything possible so that Russia cannot win this war," he said.

Macron hinted that his country could send its troops to the front in Ukraine. 

"I absolutely did not say that France does not support. I will not remove the ambiguity of today's debate by naming names. I am saying that it was named among the options," he noted.

Following Macron, French Prime Minister

also made a statement on this matter  and confirmed that their country does not reject this possibility. 

"We cannot agree that Russia should win this war, that an authoritarian country should take control of a democratic country by force. Because we stand behind Ukraine. If Sweden and Finland join NATO, it is because they see this threat. We have been with Ukraine since day one. We will continue to support Ukrainians," Attal assured in an interview with Ouest-France.

What does the Polish government say about the possibility of deploying its forces in Ukraine 

The Ministry of Defense of Poland reported that they

 "Poland does not have such a project and idea," a Polish official briefly commented, as quoted by Radio Zet.

Earlier, Polish President Andrzej Duda said that the issue of sending allied armies to Ukraine did not have any enthusiasm among European leaders.

"The most heated discussion unfolded around the issue of sending soldiers to Ukraine. And there was absolutely no agreement here either," Duda said in an interview with Polish Radio.

Polish Army / Photo: Associated Press

"Poland does not plan to enter its troops into the territory of Ukraine. I think it is not worth speculating today whether there will be circumstances that could change this position," Polish Prime Minister Donald 

The response of Sweden, which will soon become a member of NATO

In Sweden, which is not yet a member of the Alliance, commenting on Macron's statement about the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine, they said that this issue "is not relevant at the moment."

"If a country wants to send troops to another part of the world, it does not affect NATO. The French tradition is not the Swedish tradition," Kristersson was quoted as saying by SVT.

The Czech Republic does not plan to send troops to Ukraine

Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Fiala announced that his country has no intention of sending ground forces to Ukraine.

This is how he reacted to the statement of the Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, that several NATO member countries are considering the possibility of sending their soldiers to Ukraine, writes Ceske Noviny.

And the Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic, Jana Chernokhova, said that she had not heard anything similar about Fico's statement regarding the transfer of troops.

"I have never heard or read anything like that," she said.

Is the Alliance ready to send its troops to war in Ukraine: the answer of the NATO Secretary General 

NATO Secretary General

He emphasized that any decision to send troops would require unanimity from all member states.

"We have been doing this since 2014 and intensified our activities after the full-scale invasion. But there are no plans to deploy NATO combat troops in Ukraine," the Secretary General of the Alliance emphasized in a comment to the Associated Press.

The Kremlin's reaction to the possibility of the appearance of NATO troops in Ukraine

The Kremlin said that they were allegedly aware that the issue of sending foreign troops to Ukraine was being discussed in Europe.

The spokesman of the president-dictator of the Russian Federation, Dmytro Peskov, warns of a conflict with NATO if the Alliance's troops fight in Ukraine.

"If this happens, we will have to talk not about the probability, but

Peskov also noted, they say, that the discussion in the West about the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine is "an important and new element."

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