La Reppublica: NATO could send 100,000 people to Ukraine | iRADIO

Already in February, French President Emmanuel Macron was thinking aloud about the possibility of sending Western troops to Ukraine. But Kiev’s troops are not enjoying their best moments right now, so the leadership of the North Atlantic Alliance itself returned to the topic, according to the newspaper La Reppublica and its unnamed sources.

The alliance certainly does not process operational considerations, the paper emphasizes. These are just early considerations and a crisis scenario.

Nevertheless, according to the newspaper, this is the first time that the Alliance has marked, albeit in a confidential and non-public mode, certain red lines, the crossing of which could mean the deployment of Alliance troops in Ukraine.

La Reppublica mentions at least two of these lines. The first concerns the Belarusian intervention in the war.

NATO considers the border between Russia and Ukraine to be too long and vulnerable, and in the event of a breakthrough, the corridor between Ukraine and Belarus would also open up, according to him. And the Alliance does not want Minsk to take advantage of this.

According to the Italian newspaper, this is probably a warning in case Russia manages to break through the Ukrainian defenses.

The second red line concerns Moldova, i.e. the case when Russia would attack it. Then he also mentions other Russian provocations against Poland or the Baltic republics.

Prevention, assures the paper

The newspaper La Reppublica emphasizes that this is still a preventive rhetoric intended to discourage Russia and to make it clear that the Kremlin would rather count losses than gains when crossing the red lines.

At the same time, the conditions for fulfilling the North Atlantic idea of ​​the necessity of intervention in Ukraine are not unrealistic.

As confirmed by the head of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, the situation on the front is worsening, the Russians may already capture the city of Khasiv Yar in the east this week, which will open the way for them to advance further.

According to the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Russia is massing a detachment of roughly 50,000 troops near the border with Ukraine to attack Kharkiv.

It is not clear what the current position of Belarus is. His domestic support is quite possibly also dependent on the fact that bombs do not fall on Belarusian cities like in Ukraine.

100,000 soldiers

The British newspaper Financial Times writes that the British and German intelligence services are alerting their governments to the growing risk of Russian diversionary actions, such as bombings and arson attacks, or attacks on infrastructure. And that on the entire European territory.

According to the American newspaper Wall Street Journal, however, it is not likely that in the near future Russia would directly attack any member country of the North Atlantic Alliance.

Nevertheless, La Reppublica writes that NATO could mobilize 100,000 troops in the short term, however logistically this is a demanding task.

But the question is what exactly would these soldiers do on Ukrainian soil. For example, whether they would be assigned a specific area to protect, or whether they would directly respond to Russian attacks.

Tomáš Havlín, Ph.D

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