Lithuanian Foreign Minister Calls for European Union Troops to Fight in Ukraine
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The Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said in a statement to Politico on Monday that European Union countries should return to the idea of putting boots-on-the-ground in Ukraine to fight Russia.
The idea comes after French President Emmanuel Macron said in February that sending Western troops to Ukraine is not ‘ruled out’ for the future plans in war against Russia, according to the AP. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz shut down that plan for the time being however.
“If information about Russia’s killing squads being equipped with North Korean ammunition and military personnel is confirmed, we have to get back to ‘boots on the ground’ and other ideas proposed by [French President] Emmanuel Macron,” he said in written comments, Politico reported on Monday.
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Landsbergis discussed this on social media on Sunday.
At the beginning of the year @EmmanuelMacron hinted at putting boots on the ground. At the end of the year North Korea actually did it. We are still on the back foot, reacting to escalation instead of reversing it. Macron's ideas should now be revisited, better late than never.
— Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 (@GLandsbergis) October 20, 2024
The current call to send Europeans to Ukraine to fight Russia comes in response to allegations by Ukrainian ruler Vladimir Zelensky that North Korea is planning on dispatching troops to fight for Russia in the region.
“Both Moscow and Pyongyang have denied the claims and U.S. officials have said they are still investigating the reports,” Reuters said Monday.
Notably, the European Union is an economic and legislative union, while NATO is a military organization, although the two groups are made up of largely the same member nations. The statement of sending European Union troops to fight in Ukraine likely means a NATO mobilization for war without calling it a NATO mobilization for war.
