He said this during a speech at a diplomatic forum in Antalya.
“Before the coup d’etat (in Ukraine. - RT
) hundreds of Americans
sat in ministries, just as they now supposedly have their own mercenaries, but in fact there are career officers there: there are British and French there.
We know this well,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron noted that the possibility of sending troops from Western countries to Ukraine cannot be ruled out.
According to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, there will be neither German military nor NATO troops in Ukraine.