We have never planned to be on the front lines, but we could be in Kiev and Odessa, for example, as guarantor forces to conduct training and security operations, which we have already done in other countries, Macron stated in an interview with RTL during his stay in Luanda, where he is participating in a European Union-African Union Summit.

As a leader of the Coalition of Volunteers, an initiative that brings together some 30 countries supporting Ukraine, the French president and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have promoted the deployment of European troops to ensure compliance with peace, if achieved, a mobilization that Moscow already considers unacceptable.

He also mentioned the creation of an “air guarantee force,” which would be stationed in neighboring countries to operate alongside the Ukrainian air force.

However, Macron ruled out the immediate deployment of soldiers to the war zone that erupted in February 2022, a conflict that Russia calls a “special military operation” in response to the threat of NATO moving even closer to its borders, while the West calls it an “expansionist aggression.”

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