The Kremlin is threatening conflict with NATO if its members send troops to fight in Ukraine

The Kremlin warned on Tuesday that Russia would come into conflict with the NATO alliance if member countries sent troops to Ukraine to fight on the country's behalf, according to The Moscow Times.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Monday that several EU and NATO members are there taking into account sending troops to Ukraine, while French President Emmanuel Macron said on the same day that “nothing can be ruled out” to ensure a victory for Kiev over Russia, according to Politico and The Associated Press. The Kremlin responded that such a decision would lead to a military confrontation between Russia and NATO, the Times reported.

“This is absolutely not in the interest of these countries, they should be aware of that,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in response to Macron's statement, according to the Times. “The very fact of discussing the possibility of sending certain contingents to Ukraine from NATO countries is a very important new element.”

Peskov added that if troops are sent to Ukraine to fight on behalf of Kiev, “we need to talk not about a possibility but about the inevitability” of the conflict, according to the Times.

“And these countries need to… ask themselves whether [confrontation] it is in their interest and, above all, if it is in the interest of the citizens”, he continued.

I will never walk away from Article 5 and the promise that the United States will defend every inch of NATO territory, which spans 31 countries.

I can't imagine any other president leaving.

— President Biden (@POTUS) February 17, 2024

Several NATO members quickly ruled out sending troops to Ukraine after Macron's comments, including Britain, Germany, Spain and Poland. seconds to Reuters. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, too he said the AP on Tuesday that “there are no plans for NATO combat troops on the ground in Ukraine.”

If troops from one of NATO's 32 members were deployed to Ukraine to fight Russia, it could end up escalating the conflict into a multinational war. The Treaty of Washington states that if one NATO member is attacked, “it will be considered an attack against all of them” and a collective military defense would be initiated.

Ukraine is no currently a member of NATO, although Kiev keep on to seek membership.

President Joe Biden raised the specter of a world war the following December claiming that if Russia conquers Ukraine and attacks a neighboring NATO ally, “then we'll have something we're not looking for and we don't have today: American troops fighting Russian troops.” Biden made the remarks during an urgent call to increase U.S. military aid to Ukraine, a prospect that is currently negotiated in Congress

Some critics fear that Ukraine cannot militarily move forward Russia Even at $73 billion With US help alone, Kiev's counteroffensive has largely stalled as tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops are estimated to have death in the first lines.

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