By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
PARIS/KYIV/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – France signaled Thursday that it may send ground troops to wartorn Ukraine if Russia’s military breaks through frontlines as fears mount that the armed conflict could engulf Europe.
French President Emanuel Macron’s comments came after Worthy News previously reported that NATO military alliance forces were working under the radar in Ukraine.
Yet his remarks suggested that nuclear-armed France was preparing for open warfare with Russia, which itself has atomic arms and hasn’t ruled out using them if provoked.
In published remarks, Macron also warned that if Russia escalates its attack in Ukraine, all European leaders would need to think about whether they would send troops.
“If Russia decided to go further, we will, in any case, all have to ask ourselves this question” of whether to send troops, he stressed in remarks obtained by The Economist magazine and carried by several media.
“I’m not ruling anything out because we are facing someone who is not ruling anything out,” Macron said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He called Russia “a power of regional destabilization” and “a threat to Europeans’ security.”
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Kyiv has warned that Russia could be on the verge of launching a major new offensive in Ukraine and has urged the West to extend and speed up promised military assistance.
“I have a clear strategic objective: Russia cannot win in Ukraine,” Macron said. “If Russia wins in Ukraine, there will be no security in Europe.
“Who can pretend that Russia will stop there? What security will there be for the other neighboring countries, Moldova, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, and the others?” he wondered.
Not everyone agrees, with NATO military alliance member Hungary among the most vocal member states to urge peace talks.
It has refused to deliver weapons to Ukraine, with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán saying Ukraine’s war against Russia’s invading military “is impossible to win.”
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, triggering a war in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed or injured, displacing millions of people.
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