KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that he's open to the potential deployment of Western troops in Ukraine to guarantee the country's security as part of a broad effort to end the almost three-year war with Russia.
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that he's open to the potential deployment of Western troops in Ukraine to guarantee the country's security as part of a broad effort to end the almost three-year war with Russia.The deployment would be a step toward Ukraine joining NATO, Zelenskyy said in a post on his Telegram channel.
But it raised the same fears of escalation that have led Western leaders to place limits on weapons supplies and permissions for their use.European military heavyweights Germany and Poland immediately said they wouldn't send troops to Ukraine. Macron declined to provide details about which nations were considering sending troops, saying he preferred to maintain some 'strategic ambiguity.
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