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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Remarks of French President Emmanuel Macron on a possible deployment of Western troops to Ukraine were aimed at creating deterrence and ambiguity toward Russia, and “everyone knows” that Western special forces are in Ukraine, an unnamed senior European defense official told Financial Times on Tuesday.
“Everyone knows there are western special forces in Ukraine â theyâve just not acknowledged it officially,” the official said.
After a Paris-hosted conference on Ukraine on Monday, Macron said Western leaders had discussed the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine and had neither reached a consensus on the matter nor ruled out the possibility. Several NATO countries, including Germany, Italy, Poland, Finland and Hungary, have since distanced themselves from Macronâs comment, emphasizing that they have no intention of deploying troops on the ground in Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that Moscow had taken notice of the French president’s remarks and was well aware of his position regarding the need to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, adding that some countries that participated in a meeting held in Paris on Ukraine held a quite “wise assessment of potential dangers” of being involved in the conflict…
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