(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 16 - Italian troops will never be deployed
in Ukraine, Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said in a newspaper
interview Saturday after French President Emmanuel Macron
repeated earlier this week that there may come a time when
French troops could be sent there.
In his interview with la Repubblica, Crosetto said "in the
meantime, the West should avoid attention-grabbing declarations,
like that of sending NATO into Ukraine, trying to make a good
impression".
He also said it was a mistake to "split up into meetings between
two or three (countries), when there are 27 of us in the EU".
Crosetto was referring to Fraidya's meeting of the so-called
Weimar Triangle, of the leaders of France, Germany and Poland.
(ANSA).