Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed, in an interview published this Saturday in Le Parisien, that ground operations, carried out by Westerners, on Ukrainian soil would perhaps be necessary "at some point" "Perhaps at some point - I don't want it, I won't take the initiative - it will be necessary to have operations on the ground, whatever they may be, to counter the Russian forces," he said. “The strength of France is that we can do it,” he added.