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France is planning to send instructors to Ukraine to train the military. The announcement comes after reports that some NATO member states are discussing the possibility of sending military instructors or contractors to Ukraine to train troops and assist with equipment repairs.
But wait, there is more :
www.yahoo.com - Baltic officials say they could send troops to Ukraine without waiting for NATO if Russia scores a breakthrough - May 27, 2024
|------- Baltic officials told German representatives they might send troops to Ukraine, Der Spiegel reported
The warning was part of an argument for Germany to up its support in Ukraine...
Members of parliament for the Baltic states warned German officials last week that their governments were poised to send troops to Ukraine if Russia achieved considerable gains...
Scholz has been denying Ukraine permission to use German-supplied weapons in strikes on Russian soil, in line with Washington's stance of not allowing Kyiv to use donated weaponry for attacks beyond Ukraine's own borders.
... Baltic officials were concerned that such policies created a half-hearted attempt to help Kyiv and might allow Russia to gain the upper hand in Ukraine.
They said that if Moscow did gain significant ground in eastern Ukraine, their governments and Poland could move troops into the conflict zone even before Russia deployed its soldiers on their borders...
The officials' argument... was that treating Moscow with restraint could backfire and instead create an escalation.
... Ukraine has been struggling for months to hold back a grinding Russian advance after its supplies from the US began to dwindle.
The aid has resumed after months of stalling in Congress, but Kyiv says Western equipment often arrives too late to turn the tide of the war because conditions keep changing.
... Tallinn officials said Moscow had removed 24 of 50 buoys marking Russia's borders with Estonia on the Narva River. The officials said Russia had been contesting the buoys' locations.
On Sunday, six NATO nations - Norway, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania - said they'd construct a unified "drone wall" with unmanned aerial vehicles and more advanced technologies to strengthen their borders.
Their concerns aren't just centered on a full-scale Russian invasion. Finland, for example, said Russia had been trying to overwhelm Finnish border officials with waves of migrants trying to enter its borders.
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Russians are conducting "hybrid war" while the US [Congress] kept stalling and [State Dept] even erecting their own "red lines" against our ally/allies in the wars, fearing some kind of "escalation," as if... The predictable result has been/will be more people killed.
That seems to be changing... slowly. Germany's Stoltenberg, Sweden, Finland, Poland and some other countries' leaders have already said that restrictions on use of NATO weapons and munitions are counterproductive.
|------- "After a sobering trip to Kyiv, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is urging the president to lift restrictions on how Ukraine can use American arms. ... Mr. Blinken's position had changed because... Moscow's forces have placed weapons right across the border from northeastern Ukraine, and aimed them at Kharkiv - knowing the Ukrainians would only be able to use non-American drones and other weaponry to target them in response. ..." -------|
Duh! Why that was a surprise to our "high command" I don't know. Russia had no problems using Iranian, North Korean, Chinese weapons on Ukraine's territory, including deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure and shelters.
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