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French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said on Tuesday, February 27 that he would not rule out sending troops to Ukraine, echoing comments made by French President Emmanuel Macron the previous day.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said on Tuesday that nothing was off the table in Western efforts to prevent a Russian victory in Ukraine.
Speaking a day after President Emmanuel Macron said that sending Western ground troops was not excluded, Attal said that "you can't rule anything out in a war."
He told the RTL broadcaster that there was "no consensus" on any "official" deployment of ground troops.
"But no dynamic can be ruled out. We will do whatever it takes to ensure that Russia cannot win this war," he said, using the same words as Macron a day earlier.
Macron, after hosting a meeting of two dozen European leaders to discuss Ukraine, painted a grim picture on Monday of a Russia whose positions were "hardening" both at home and on the battlefield.
"We are convinced that the defeat of Russia is indispensable to security and stability in Europe," he said.
He refused to say more about France's position, citing the need for "strategic ambiguity," but said that the issue of Western troops in Ukraine was mentioned among the "options."
With AFP
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said on Tuesday that nothing was off the table in Western efforts to prevent a Russian victory in Ukraine.
Speaking a day after President Emmanuel Macron said that sending Western ground troops was not excluded, Attal said that "you can't rule anything out in a war."
He told the RTL broadcaster that there was "no consensus" on any "official" deployment of ground troops.
"But no dynamic can be ruled out. We will do whatever it takes to ensure that Russia cannot win this war," he said, using the same words as Macron a day earlier.
Macron, after hosting a meeting of two dozen European leaders to discuss Ukraine, painted a grim picture on Monday of a Russia whose positions were "hardening" both at home and on the battlefield.
"We are convinced that the defeat of Russia is indispensable to security and stability in Europe," he said.
He refused to say more about France's position, citing the need for "strategic ambiguity," but said that the issue of Western troops in Ukraine was mentioned among the "options."
With AFP
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