The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Elina Valtonen, believes that Western countries, in particular the United States, should not completely reject the idea of sending their troops to Ukraine if the situation worsens there. However, Finland is not discussing it at the moment, Politico reports.
"Itʼs important that we donʼt rule everything out in the long term because we never know how serious the situation is going to be. But Finlandʼs position is clear: we are not sending troops now and we donʼt want to discuss it," she said.
According to Valtonen, the most important thing now is that Ukraineʼs partners continue to send aid to it. She also indicated that Finland spent more than 0.6% of the gross domestic product to support Kyiv.
"Many European countries could do much more," she noted.
- On February 26, after the summit of the leaders of 25 European countries, the United States and Canada, convened in Paris to discuss aid to Ukraine, Macron said that Paris would do everything possible to support Kyiv.
- Journalists asked Macron what he meant by his words that partners are ready to do "everything possible" to support Kyiv. To this, the French president replied that he does not rule out anything, even the deployment of ground troops, in particular French. However, Macron immediately clarified that this is still a theoretical discussion. According to him, there is "no consensus" on this issue among the leaders of the states who gathered in Paris for the summit.