Emmanuel Macron, has refused to rule out sending ground troops to Ukraine but said no consensus existed on the step, at a meeting of 20 mostly European leaders in Paris convened by the French president to ramp up the European response to the Russian military advances inside Ukraine. Protecting France’s strategic ambiguity, he said “there is no consensus to officially back any ground troops. That said, nothing should be excluded. We will do everything that we can to make sure that Russia does not prevail.” He pointed out that past shibboleths such as sending long-range missiles and planes had been cast aside, adding “people used to say give them just sleeping bags and helmets … We must do whatever we can to obtain our objective”
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