Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has described it as an open secret that Western soldiers are already in Ukraine.
“As your Chancellor said, there are already some troops from major countries in Ukraine,” Sikorski said in an interview with the German Press Agency. When asked if it was a problem for the chancellor to talk about the issue, he said:
On February 26, Scholz justified his rejection of the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine to journalists, saying, among other things, that Germany would not participate in attacking soldiers – neither from Germany nor on the ground. He added:
This was interpreted by opposition politicians, as well as by individual politicians abroad, as meaning that Scholz had confirmed the presence of Western soldiers in Ukraine.
Sikorski reiterated that Poland would not send ground troops to Ukraine, citing historical reasons for this. “Ukraine and Poland were one and the same country for 400 years. And that would provide the Russians with too easy propaganda fodder. So we should be the last to do that.”he said.
However, he welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron’s approach of not taking off the option of sending ground troops to the war zone. Russian President Vladimir Putin first annexed Crimea, then started a war in the Donbass in eastern Ukraine and finally invaded Ukraine.
“And we’re concerned about how we handle it.”Sikorski said. “I can understand President Macron’s strategic or in this case tactical logic to reverse the narrative. Let Putin worry about what we are going to do.” Chancellor Scholz has categorically ruled out sending ground troops. (rbu/sda/dpa)
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