“NATO does not intend to to deploy forces in Ukraine. When I visited Ukraine last week, the Ukrainians did not ask for NATO forces, but more support,” the NATO Secretary General clarified. Jens Stoltenberg, to the Italian news agency ANSA.

Jens Stoltenberg met today in Rome with the Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni. At the end of their conversation, in a statement to Ansa, the secretary-general of the Atlantic Alliance praised Italy’s role as a “faithful and important ally”, adding that the meeting with the head of the Italian government was positive and that “a broad reference was made range of issues, which, at this stage, are of key importance to our security.”

It is noted that the gg. of NATO is thus differentiated from the French president Emmanuel Macron who favored sending European troops to Ukraine, provoking reactions from other Western leaders, but also of Moscow.