Prime Minister Gabriel Attal repeated, Tuesday February 27 on RTL, that“we cannot exclude anything in a war” who holds “in the heart of Europe”, including the sending of ground troops, as Emmanuel Macron mentioned Monday evening after a conference in support of Ukraine. “There is no consensus today to send ground troops in an official, assumed and endorsed manner. But dynamically, nothing must be excluded. We will do everything necessary to ensure that Russia cannot can’t win this war.”, explained the French president on Monday. Follow our live stream.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon opposes sending troops to Ukraine. The leader of La France insoumise responded on the social network X on Tuesday to Emmanuel Macron. “War against Russia would be madness”he estimated, judging “irresponsible” the declarations of the head of state. “Sending troops to Ukraine would make us belligerents (…) This bellicose verbal escalation of a nuclear power against another major nuclear power is already an irresponsible act”protested the former presidential candidate. “It is high time to negotiate peace in Ukraine with mutual security clauses!” he added.
“A shock sentence” addressed to the Russians. According to Peer De Jong, vice-president of the Themiis institute, specialist in geopolitics and former colonel of the marine troops, Emmanuel Macron’s sentence is “a shocking sentence”, “a commitment that is extremely strong” And “clearly addressed to the Russians”. This question of sending ground troops “is one of the options”.
Purchases of ammunition outside Europe considered. Several European countries, including France, favor the EU purchasing munitions produced outside Europe to further support Ukraine’s war effort, participants at the international conference in Paris said. This proposal, initiated by the Czech Republic, “enjoys great support from several countries”declared Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala.