NATO countries that reject sending troops to Ukraine
Germany, United Kingdom, Spain, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Poland, all NATO countries, today ruled out or showed themselves in disagreement with the idea, and he did the same Sweden, who has just overcome the last obstacle to join the alliance.
President Vladimir Putin’s statements about sending troops to Ukraine
In RussiaMeanwhile, the spokesman for the Russian president, Vladimir Putinsaid that to the West “it is not in your interest” to send troops to Ukraine.
“It is not in the interests of those countries at all, and they must be aware of that,” declared spokesman Dmitri Peskov to journalists in Moscow, adding that the simple fact of raising that possibility represents “a very important new element” in the conflict.
The rejection of NATO leaders
The CComments came after the Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Ficosaid yesterday that some countries were considering reaching bilateral security agreements with Ukraine to send troops to fight against the invading Russian forces. Fico said his government does not plan to propose sending Slovak soldiersbut did not provide details on which countries might be considering such deals or what troops in Ukraine would do.
In France, upon receiving Fico and about twenty other leaders from 20 countries to discuss how to increase aid to Ukraine, the president Emmanuel Macron said a troop shipment to Ukraine could not be “ruled out.”
The possible confrontation if NATO sends troops to Ukraine
Peskov commented that the Kremlin was “aware of Macron’s position on the need to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia”, reported the news agency AFP. The spokesperson also responded to the question of whether the presence of troops from NATO member countries in Ukraine would lead to a direct confrontation between the Atlantic Alliance and Russia.
“In that case we would have to talk not about a possibility, but about the inevitability” of that confrontation, he said.
“And those countries have (…) that wonder if [la confrontación con Rusia] suits them, and above all, if it is convenient for its citizens,” he warned.
The NATO countries that rejected Emmanuel Macron’s idea
Germany
In Germanythe head of government, the federal chancellor Olaf Scholz rejected Macron’s idea to send troops from European and/or NATO countries to Ukraine.
“What was agreed between us at the beginning also applies to the future, that is, there will be no soldiers on Ukrainian soil sent there by European countries or NATO countries,” Scholz said. to the press in the city of Freiburg.
United Kingdom
UK does not plan “large-scale deployment” of troops in Ukrainesaid a spokesperson for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in relation to Fico and Macron’s comments.
Spain
He The Government of Spain does not agree with the idea either of a possible deployment of European troops in Ukraine, said the spokesperson for the Spanish Executive, Pilar Alegría.
Sweden, the last country to join NATO
In Swedenwhich yesterday overcame its last obstacle to become the 32nd member of NATO with the approval of its membership by Hungary, the Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said sending troops to Ukraine “is not on the agenda at the moment”, reported the Swedish public broadcaster SVT.
Ukraine finds itself adrift due to lack of support from the United States and NATO
Ukraine is on the defensive since the failure of a counteroffensive to retake territories occupied by Russia, which was followed by a sharp decline in military support which he had received until then from United States and other NATO countries.
This allowed Russia resumes the initiative along the 1,000 kilometer front lineand in recent days it conquered the city of Avdiivka, in the occupied eastern Ukrainian province of Donetsk, and nearby towns.
Russia’s new takeover of territory
Russia announced today the capture of a second village near Avdiivka, after having celebrated the taking of another, yesterday. “In the Avdiivka area… units liberated the village of Severnoye,” Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in his daily briefing, using the Russian name for the town known in Ukrainian as Sieverne.
He Ukrainian army did not confirm the fall of Sieverne, but said today that Russian forces were continuing to advance west and northwest of Avdiivka, a town near the capital Donetsk that had about 30,000 inhabitants before the war.
He Ukrainian army confirmed yesterday that Russia took the town of Lastochkine, west of Avdiivka.
US support for Ukraine in danger
There are increasing doubts about the viability of long-term support of USA to Ukraineespecially given the possibility of a return to the White House of the Republican leader donald trumpwho admires Putin and promises to end the war “in 48 hours.”
Besides, A new military aid package for Ukraine remains blocked in the US Congress by Republican Party legislators who respond to Trump and who demand that he be tied to a reinforcement of security on the border with Mexico to stop illegal immigration.
Ukraine’s attack on Russia
In RussiaMeanwhile, authorities affirmed today that the Russian Army prevented a toxic gas attack that the Ukrainian special services were planning to launch in the southern Ukrainian province of Zaporizhzhia, which is occupied by Russian forces.
“An attempt by the Ukrainian special services to carry out an attack in the Zaporizhia region has been thwarted by using an equivalent to the toxic military agent ‘BZ’, according to NATO classification,” said the Russian Federal Security Service FSB.
A FSB statement He noted that in the operation toxic agents were seized that “are used in the manufacture of chemical weapons of mass destruction and were developed in the United States.”
Also today, Russia claims it destroyed a US Abrams tank in eastern Ukrainethe first claim of this type since the US sent this type of heavy tanks to kyiv’s forces.
Source: Ambito
