Haven’t there been foreign combatants fighting alongside Ukrainians for the duration of this thing?
Random volunteers. That’s a lot different than actual military personnel being involved in the conflict. As far as I know the most that has been done officially is to provide strategic advisors and training the ukrainian troops in the use of the more complex equipment provided.
There’s been a lot of Poles fighting in Ukraine, but not officially. Hard to say how much Polish government has been organising it, but while it has been on less level than let’s say Italian blackshirts in Spain, some effort clearly been made since this is technically mercenary work which is illegal in Poland, and yet there was no or barely any arrests because of that, meaning police was ordered to look the other way when those people coming back.
Obviously not right now…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
BRUSSELS (AP) — European military heavyweights Germany and Poland affirmed Tuesday that they would not be sending troops to Ukraine, after reports that some Western countries may be considering doing so as the war with Russia enters its third year.
With Macron increasingly looking isolated and opposition politicians in France furiously critical of his suggestion that ground troops might be considered, the French president’s government subsequently sought Tuesday to clarify his comments.
French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu said there had been discussions but no consensus at the conference about carrying out de-mining and military training operations in Ukraine, away from the front lines.
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has said his government is not planning to propose a deployment, but that some countries were weighing whether to strike bilateral deals to provide troops to help Ukraine fend off the Russian invasion.
NATO as an alliance provides Ukraine only non-lethal aid and support like medical supplies, uniforms and winter equipment, but some members send weapons and ammunition of their own accord, bilaterally or in groups.
A decision to send troops and keep them deployed long term would require the kind of transport and logistics capabilities that only countries like the U.S., U.K., France, Germany and possibly Italy, Poland or Spain could muster.
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Good excuses.
