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| Zelensky: Ukraine needs ammunition, not Western troops |
| 2024-03-12 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Ukraine does not need the French military; the Ukrainian Armed Forces are experiencing difficulties with a shortage of ammunition. The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, stated this in an interview with the BFMTV channel. “We have some difficulties related to the lack of shells, the air blockade, Russian long-range missiles and the high density of Russian drones. At the same time, Ukraine does not need foreign troops on its territory,” Zelensky answered a question about the possible dispatch of Western military personnel to the conflict zone. He proposed sending technical personnel to service foreign equipment due to the fact that damaged Leopard tanks and Caesar self-propelled guns are being sent to Europe for repairs. Zelensky also spoke about the construction in Ukraine of three fortification lines with a length of one thousand kilometers. As Regnum reported, at the end of February, French President Emmanuel Macron said that the leaders of the EU and NATO countries discussed at a summit in Paris the possible dispatch of military personnel to the conflict zone in Ukraine. He admitted that the meeting participants could not reach a consensus on this issue. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg rejected Macron's statements about sending alliance troops to Ukraine. He advised the French President to consult on such issues with members of the bloc, since neither NATO nor its allies are a party to the conflict, Stoltenberg emphasized. He added that the intervention of an individual NATO country in the conflict will affect the entire alliance, whose members are bound by the principle of “collective defense.” On February 29, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his annual address to the Federal Assembly, recalled proposals voiced in the West to send NATO troops to Ukraine. The consequences for the interventionists will be even more tragic than before, he noted. Russia also has weapons that can hit targets on their territory. Everything that they come up with in the West, which scares the whole world, all of this really threatens with nuclear war and the destruction of civilization, Putin added. Russophobia deprives one of reason, the Russian leader said. |
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