The President of the Czech Republic, Petr

, said that the possible deployment of NATO troops to Ukraine would not violate any international rules.   

He announced this on the air of Czech television, writes Euractiv.

He emphasized that there should be a clear difference between the deployment of combat troops in Ukraine and their involvement in some auxiliary measures, the experience of which NATO already has.

The President of the Czech Republic also recalled that after the beginning of Russian aggression in 2014, a NATO training mission was already operating in Ukraine.

"It should be remembered that after the annexation of Crimea and the occupation of a part of Donbas, which in essence was aggression, although on a much smaller scale than today, a NATO training mission was operating on the territory of Ukraine, which at one time included more than 15 countries and about 1,000 people. From the point of view of international law and the UN Charter, nothing will prevent the troops of NATO member states, as well as, for example, civilians, from helping in the work in Ukraine," the Czech president noted.

Petro Pavl's comments about further support for Ukraine appeared a few days after his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, who recently raised the issue of sending Western troops to Ukraine.

The Czech leader said that he did not give up on the discussion about sending NATO troops to Ukraine.

"If we could agree with the allies that, for example, instead of training Ukrainian soldiers on the territory of NATO member countries and transferring thousands of servicemen to, say, Poland or the Czech Republic, it would be much more reasonable to transport several dozen instructors to the territory of Ukraine and train there are Ukrainian soldiers," the politician emphasized.

According to Pavel, Western allies should have the courage to defend their activities legally, "because assistance in training and maintenance of equipment in a sovereign country is not combat".

"Even if there is a training mission on its territory (Ukraine - ed.), this is not a violation of any international rule. And it depends on us what form of assistance we will choose to provide to Ukraine, as long as we remain within this limit of non-combat participation," - said the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel.

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