A number of NATO member states rushed to deny that their nations could become directly involved in the conflict.
NATO has no plans to send troops to Ukraine, but individual decisions by each country do not require unanimous support from all member states, Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO’s secretary general, told the AP news agency on Tuesday.
“Any decision to send NATO troops requires the unanimous support of all member countries, whereas individual decisions by individual countries do not require such unanimous support,” Stoltenberg explained.
However, for now, he is ruling out NATO troops in Ukraine, saying, “NATO allies are providing unprecedented support to Ukraine. We have done that since 2014 and stepped up after the full-scale invasion. But there are no plans for NATO combat troops on the ground in Ukraine.”