Poland’s foreign minister, who returned after a decade of rebellion, said NATO soldiers were already in Ukraine and thanked alliance members for taking “this risk” to deploy. Kyiv.
Speaking in the Polish parliament on Saturday during an event marking the 25th anniversary of Poland’s signing of the NATO treaty, Radosław Sikorski confidently declared that there are already allied troops in neighboring Ukraine. Sikorski did not mention French President Emmanuel Macron’s strong statements about the need to keep all options open in the fight against Russia, or the apparent failure of the German chancellor and military to directly engage Britain and France. He said: Which states did he believe were involved?
FM Sikorsky said: report US government news agency Radio Free Europe reported that their presence posed some threat. He told the gathering: “Soldiers from NATO countries are already in Ukraine. We want to thank the countries for taking this risk.” Countries with troops in Ukraine “know who they are” but “other European countries “I’m not like a politician,” Sikorsky said, adding that he doesn’t want to be dragged any further.
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Also on Saturday, Sikorski said it was “not inconceivable” that troops could be sent to Ukraine, adding: “It’s not that Putin is afraid; we’re not afraid of Putin. “It’s good that the French president is making such a big deal about Ukraine.” ”
France’s Macron said in February that the presence of NATO soldiers in Ukraine “cannot be ruled out,” despite the idea being firmly rejected by many alliance leaders. hasn’t stopped talking about this idea. Since then, Mr Macron has said that his comments have been carefully considered and that he is clearly playing a pro-Trump mind game with Mr Putin in which the comments can be interpreted figuratively, if not literally, and have an effect. claims to be part of it.
Russia, which does not enjoy the moral high ground on the issue of sending foreign troops to Ukraine, responded to Sikorski’s comments on Sunday, with Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova saying there was “no point in denying it any further.” said. Konstantin Kosachev, a Russian politician and Putin supporter, said that “NATO is increasingly being drawn into the Ukraine conflict” and that the presence of Western soldiers in Ukraine was an “open secret”.
As previously reported, many Western countries, like many countries around the world, maintain small numbers of troops in Ukraine for tasks such as protecting embassies and VIPs. The United States also maintains a small group of military auditors in Ukraine to ensure that the vast amounts of donated weapons flowing into Ukraine are used on the front lines as intended and do not end up on the global black market. But engagement beyond this individual level was until now completely taboo until the omerta surrounding it was broken by Macron in February.
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Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Sikorski has long been a hawk on Russia, and in 2014, when his party was last in power, he urged the US to build military bases in Poland to deter Russian aggression. Ta. In June 2014, two months after Russia invaded Ukraine, he said: “For the first time since World War II, one European country has captured a state by force from another European country…I hope America has a way to reassure us.”We thought Nothing. We have major locations in the UK, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy. Why not here? ”
Just a few weeks later, Mr. Sikorski was embroiled in a major controversy when a tape recording of a purported private conversation denigrating Poland-US relations as “worthless” and submissive was leaked to a Polish newspaper. Ta. Sikorski said the leak was an attack on the government by a criminal group. It is unclear whether Russia was involved in the release of this audio. Litigation and re-litigation Several years have passed since then.
The Sikorsky tapes also feature then-British Prime Minister David Cameron, who returned to power after a break from government, this time as British Foreign Secretary opposite Sikorsky. Sikorski is said to have said on tape in 2014: report The BBC said Prime Minister David Cameron was incompetent, propaganda-driven and manipulative.
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