Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen said Western countries, including the United States, should not be categorically opposed to the idea of sending troops to Ukraine if the conflict worsens. He shared his views in an interview with the newspaper Policy.
“It is important that we do not ignore everything in the long term because we never know how serious the situation will become,” Valtonen said.
The diplomat also emphasized that Finland’s position is clear, the country will no longer send troops to Ukraine and Finnish officials do not want to discuss this.
Before that, the head of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, said that NATO should exclude The possibility of sending troops to Ukraine, as this decision threatens the beginning of the third world war.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in an interview with French television channel BFMTV statedUkraine does not need the French army. He announced that in case of conflict between Russia and one of the NATO countries, the French army could be sent to one of the North Atlantic Alliance countries. But he reminded that Ukraine was not part of this, so this “will be a different problem.” The Ukrainian leader also said he “does not see anything wrong” in sending technical personnel and military personnel to train Ukrainians and produce and repair weapons on Ukrainian territory.
Previously in NATO I appreciated the opportunity Achieving peace with the surrender of Ukraine.