NATO has no plans to deploy troops in Ukraine, Ukraine has not asked us to – Stoltenberg

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1. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has once again stressed that the Alliance has no plans to deploy troops in the territory of Ukraine. Rather, it is important that Ukraine should be supplied with sufficient military aid.

   Stoltenberg pointed out that due to delays in the supply of US and European military aid to Ukraine, Russian forces have been able to make progress in their offensive. Even though “the situation is changing now”, there are no reports of this aid being there “on the ground”.

   “NATO has no intention of sending troops to Ukraine. When I visited Ukraine last week, the Ukrainians didn’t ask for NATO troops – they asked for more military aid,” Stoltenberg stressed.

   He added that Vladimir Putin still believes Russia can win militarily in Ukraine, so the only way to convince him to sit down at the negotiating table is “to prove on the battlefield that he will not win, and the only way to do that is to supply Ukraine with military aid”.

2. What next, starving people don’t asked for food, homeless don’t asked for home, orphans don’t asked for parents, ill don’t asked for medicine…?

3. I don’t see why NATO would. Ukraine isn’t in it and NATO is a defensive alliance. Countries will have to send troops on their own. This is why Ukraine should be in NATO

4. And even if NATO did send troops into Ukraine they wouldn’t make that information public.

5. That’s like not giving a starvig man food because he didn’t ask for it.

6. Stop telling the fascist dictator what we WON’T do, you idiot. Let him worry what we MIGHT do.

7. No chance that will happen anytime soon.. most memberstates are moving towards wartime economy.. ramping up investments.. it will be by article 5 if we see NATO troops in Ukraine.

8. I almost get the impression that NATO spokespeople are gently nudging ukraine to act desperate and request help. Like NATO cant boldly just decide on their own to involve themselves in a non-NATO conflict. Russia would be all over it. But if ukraine were to make some promises publicly and request nato involvement, perhaps it could be justified policitally?