It would be “inappropriate” to speculate on the idea before the hostilities end, the German Chancellor has said
Deployment of German troops to Ukraine is “out of the question” and it would be “inappropriate” to speculate about the proposition without peace talks starting, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said.
Scholz made the remarks on Wednesday while addressing the German parliament about remarks made earlier this week by the country’s Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock.
Speaking on the sidelines of a meeting of NATO’s top diplomats on Tuesday, Baerbock signaled that Berlin was open to the idea of sending a peacekeeping force into Ukraine.
“The German side will support everything that serves peace in the future,” she said, adding that the country’s soldiers “could be deployed only under the condition of a real ceasefire.”
The remarks prompted widespread speculation on how exactly such a deployment could flesh out, yet Scholz…
