Nato and EU states ‘considering sending troops to the Ukraine’
The prime minister of Slovakia has claimed that Nato and EU member states are preparing to deploy troops to the Ukraine.
Robert Fico, a pro-Russia populist, offered no details of how Western soldiers could be sent to assist the Ukraine, and commentators said he was probably just trying to stir up trouble.
He was speaking ahead of a hastily-arranged meeting of European leaders in Paris because of what his advisers say is an escalation in Russian aggression over the past few weeks.
The meeting implies that “a number of Nato and EU member states are considering that they will send their troops to the Ukraine on a bilateral basis”, Mr Fico told a televised briefing following a meeting of Slovakia’s security council.
“I cannot say for what purpose and what they should be doing there,” he said, adding that Slovakia, a member of the EU and Nato, would not be sending soldiers to the Ukraine.
The prime minister of Slovakia has claimed that Nato and EU member states are preparing to deploy troops to Ukraine.
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