French President Emmanuel Macron no longer wants to rule out the use of ground troops in Ukraine. The idiosyncratic move has sparked strong criticism in Europe.

Wolfgang Ischinger, the former head of the Munich Security Conference, believes the idea is appropriate. Russian ambassador in Washington, Anatoly Antonov, complained the US's European allies would send their own armed forces to Ukraine was unthinkable for a long time, but is now being loudly discussed. He said the U.S. government would be well advised to remember the basics of international politics.