Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said NATO troops could be directly involved in the Ukraine conflict. He said this in an interview he gave to the newspaper. Guard.
“If member states, including the United States, do not provide real security guarantees to Kiev at the alliance’s summit in Vilnius, the group of NATO countries may want to send troops to Ukraine,” he said.
According to Rasmussen, if Ukraine “gets nothing in Vilnius”, the Baltic states and Poland could form a “coalition of the willing” to send an army to assist the Ukrainian authorities.
The previous day, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said: spent Negotiations with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. According to the minister, the Ukrainian side is not trying to attract allied troops to its territory on the basis of the continuation of the Russian military special operation.
Earlier, Stoltenberg said that the alliance plans to do the following at the summit in Vilnius: enable aid to Ukraine.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a military special operation to protect Donbass, in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.