Prime Minister Gabriel Attal repeated, Tuesday February 27 on RTL, that "we cannot exclude anything in a war" which is taking place "in the heart of Europe", including the sending of ground troops, like Emmanuel Macron mentioned it the day before.

"There is no consensus today to send ground troops in an official, assumed and endorsed manner. But dynamically, nothing must be excluded. We will do everything necessary to ensure that Russia cannot not win this war", explained the French president on Monday after an international conference in support of Ukraine in Paris, marking a very clear evolution of his position on the subject.

Emmanuel Macron does not exclude the sending of Western troops to #Ukraine: "We cannot exclude anything in a war which is taking place in the heart of Europe and at the gates of the European Union"



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On the sidelines of a visit to the Agricultural Show, his Prime Minister recalled Tuesday that "two years ago", many countries "ruled out sending weapons" including defense weapons to the Ukrainians.

“We are today sending long-range missiles to support the Ukrainians in the face of this aggression,” underlined Gabriel Attal.

“So what the President of the Republic recalled is that we cannot exclude anything in a war which once again acts at the heart of Europe and at the gates of the European Union,” he said. -he concluded, believing that Emmanuel Macron “was clear on the subject”.

The unknown of American support 

He repeated that France could not envisage that "Russia could win this war", that its President Vladimir Putin could "say that he is taking control of another free and democratic country by force".

“I don’t want my generation and future generations to grow up in a world (...) of threats,” he added.

The double "message" from President Macron, "is that we have an obligation of result on Ukraine", analyzed the president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly Jean-Louis Bourlanges on Sud Radio.

For what ?

“Because it has become our war, in reality, our security problem has become our war even if we are not at war,” added the MoDem MP.

"We cannot let Ukraine collapse and say 'well, it's over'," he warned.

For him, the possible sending of ground troops - "in the event of military collapse" - is linked to the fact that, "for the first time" since February 24, 2022, "we can be engaged in a major confrontation with the Russia alone", without the United States, in the event of Donald Trump's victory in the American presidential election.

“The defeat of Ukraine would be our defeat,” he summed up.

With AFP

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