Western Troop Presence in Ukraine ‘Open Secret,’ Poland’s Top Diplomat Says

Published on March 21, 2024

The presence of Western troops in Ukraine is an “open secret,” Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, said in recent remarks to the German press. “As [German Chancellor Olaf Scholz] has said, there are already some troops from big [Western] countries in Ukraine,” he told the German Press Agency (DPA) on March 20. “In Polish, we have an expression—‘tajemnica poliszynela’—which describes a secret that everyone knows,” Mr. Sikorski added. Last month, the German chancellor defended his reluctance to provide Ukraine with long-range Taurus missile systems, which, he said, had to be operated by trained German personnel. “German soldiers must at no point … be linked to targets that this [Taurus] system reaches,” Mr. Scholz, who has ruled out sending German troops to Ukraine, said on Feb. 26....

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