President Volodymyr Zelensky stated Thursday that Ukraine had “no want” for overseas allied forces to stand down a feared Russian invasion, caution that their presence may simplest exacerbate tensions.
“We haven’t any want for infantrymen with overseas flags on our territory. We aren’t inquiring for that. Otherwise, the complete international might be destabilised,” the Ukrainian president instructed the RBK Ukraine website.
“We do now no longer need to offer any extra motive for Russia to mention we have (overseas) bases right here that they want to ‘defend’ themselves against,” he stated.
“But we need the whole thing else,” Zelensky delivered in connection with investment and palms added from Ukraine’s Western allies.
US President Joe Biden has firmly excluded sending infantrymen to Ukraine and has entreated American residents to go away immediatly.
Some NATO powers, together with Britain, have withdrawn or commenced taking flight army employees that they’d stationed in Ukraine to educate the country’s armed forces.