Emmanuel Macron announced this Monday that he was not ruling out the idea of sending ground troops to Ukraine. For Ulrich Bounat, geopolitologist, associate researcher at the Open Diplomacy Institute, the French president's remarks are more of a declaratory nature.
“It is unrealistic in my opinion, politically and militarily, to plan for any deployment of troops in Ukraine – whether for maintenance or even training on Ukrainian soil. It seems a little unrealistic to me, quite honestly, in the short or medium term,” he says.