NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the alliance has no plans to send troops to Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron had previously said the possibility of sending Western troops to the country cannot be ruled out.
The Kremlin then recalled that if Western troops were sent to Ukraine, a direct military conflict between NATO and Russia would be inevitable. As President Vladimir Putin noted in an interview with Tucker Carlson, sending regular troops of other countries to Ukraine would put the world on the brink of a global conflict.