Remarks of French President Emmanuel Macron on a possible deployment of Western troops to Ukraine were aimed at creating deterrence and ambiguity toward Russia, and everyone knows that Western special forces are in Ukraine, an unnamed senior European defense official told Financial Times on Tuesday.
The French president did not rule out sending ground troops to Ukraine, an idea that has been overwhelmingly dismissed by other NATO allies. Just a couple days prior, Macron told farmers who are protesting in France to “calm down”, adding that their protests were “counterproductive”.
French lawmakers have been swift to respond to recent remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron about not ruling out sending Western ground troops to Ukraine.