Lithuania is considering sending soldiers to Ukraine. Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė said this in an interview with the British business newspaper ‘Financial Times’. It would be a training mission: the Lithuanian soldiers would train Ukrainian soldiers.
According to Šimonytė, she has the permission of the Lithuanian parliament to send troops to Ukraine, but Kiev has not yet requested this.
What she thinks Russia’s response will be? “Moscow will see that as a provocation,” she says. “But if we only think about Russia’s response, we cannot direct anything at all. Every two weeks you hear them say they are going to shoot someone with a nuclear weapon.”
Nuclear weapons
Šimonytė further said in the interview with ‘Financial Times’ that she does not believe that Moscow will use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, because the radiation will have consequences as far as Russia.
Earlier this week, the Kremlin announced that it would conduct exercises with tactical nuclear weapons close to the Ukrainian border and possibly even in occupied territory.
French President Emmanuel Macron said in February that he would not rule out sending ground troops to Ukraine, something he repeated last week. Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski supported this, but Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto immediately ruled it out.
Russia immediately made threats against France. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called it “a new round of escalating tensions.” “It is unprecedented and requires special measures,” he said.
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