Baltic States Welcome French Proposals for Sending Troops to Ukraine: Report

A French proposal to send European troops to Ukraine was reportedly welcomed by Baltic officials at a recent meeting in Lithuania that received scant attention in the Western media. Late last week, French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne visited Lithuania, where he met his Ukrainian, Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian counterparts. At the meeting, he reportedly raised the possibility of Western troop deployments to Ukraine—an idea recently floated by French President Emmanuel Macron. According to Politico (one of the few Western outlets to cover the meeting), Mr. Sejourne told attendees that Kyiv “did not ask us to send troops.” “Ukraine is asking us to send ammunition at the moment,” the diplomat was quoted as saying....