Follow-up – Al-Rashid
US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that each country will decide for itself whether to send military personnel to Ukraine or not, and the United States has no such intentions at all.
“Other countries will decide what they want to do about it, but on behalf of the United States, the president has made it clear that there will not be an American military on the ground,” Miller said in a press conference.
The United States announced that it “does not intend to send troops to Ukraine to participate in combat operations there.”
The American media expressed pessimism towards the idea of French President Emmanuel Macron about the possibility of sending forces to Ukraine, while Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the French president’s statements meant “the inevitability of a direct clash” between Russia and NATO.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that NATO would not become a party to the conflict, and German forces would not be sent to Ukraine. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also stated earlier that the alliance has no plans to send troops to Ukraine.
The head of the Russian delegation to the Vienna talks on security and arms control, Konstantin Gavrilov, confirmed that the possibility of Western countries sending their forces to Ukraine will increase the risk of a direct clash between NATO and Russia.
