Two hands in NATO about the plan to send troops to Ukraine

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, in the NATO military alliance about the plan to send troops to Ukraine which was brought up a while ago, especially by France, there have been differences and there are different opinions about this.

The newspaper “Frankfurter Rondschei” wrote about this: France and Estonia do not rule out the possibility of the presence of ground forces in Ukraine. do Now Poland also wants to put this option on the agenda. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski did not rule out any option today (Tuesday) in an interview with Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper. He did not know that the West can also send troops to this country to support Kiev against Vladimir Putin, he started discussions about the deployment of NATO ground forces in Ukraine. Sikorsky seems to be of the same opinion now. He said: We should not reject any option. We have to keep Putin in the dark about what we are going to do.

This article continues: There is absolutely no agreement in NATO about the deployment of ground forces. The United States and some European countries, including Germany, are firmly against sending Western military forces to Ukraine. Boris Pistorius, Germany’s federal defense minister, criticized Macron’s proposal in March, saying: “No one really wants to have boots on the ground in Ukraine.” It’s getting hot right now. In addition to Poland and France, Estonia also offered to provide Ukraine with troops under the military that could provide logistics and medical care on the ground, the military magazine Breaking Defense reported.

Meanwhile. Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO Secretary General, warned against the escalation of tensions at the European Union Foreign Relations Council meeting in Brussels and announced to the NATO countries: NATO has two tasks in this war. One is to support Ukraine to ensure its superiority, and we do this by providing military support, training and equipment. Another task is to prevent this war from escalating beyond Ukraine and becoming a real conflict between NATO and Russia.

Stoltenberg categorically rejects the deployment of NATO forces to Ukraine and opposes increasing the military presence in eastern NATO countries. It supports in order to prevent further escalation of conflicts. He said: In addition, by increasing our military presence in the eastern part of the alliance, in the Baltic, in Romania and Poland, we prevent the escalation of tension in order to avoid any possibility for Moscow to misjudge its readiness to defend destroy all allies etc. and prevent the escalation of tension beyond Ukraine. “Joseph Borrell”, the head of the European Union’s foreign policy, said after the defense ministers’ meeting in Brussels: “There is currently no consensus.” There is no consensus among member states on sending military trainers to Ukraine.

Borrell said ministers have discussed requests to complete part of the training in Ukraine. He added: However, there is currently no common position on this issue. According to him, the opponents of such a plan pointed out its high risk in the Council of Ministers. On the other hand, supporters described bringing training closer to war as useful.

The European Union established the Eumam Ukraine Training Mission (EU Military Assistance Mission) in November 2022. About 50,000 Ukrainian forces have been trained in the EU so far, and that number is expected to rise to 60,000 by the end of the summer, Borrell said. So far, Ukrainian soldiers from EU countries have been trained only in the territory of the member states.

On the other hand, the Ministry of Defense of France has confirmed to this country’s news agency that this issue (sending a military trainer to Ukraine) is under investigation. “As mentioned several times before, training on Ukrainian soil is one of the basic plans discussed since the conference on support for Ukraine held by the President (Emmanuel Macron) on February 26,” the ministry said. Accordingly, the French side is currently trying to understand what exactly Ukraine needs.

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