{"id":51926,"date":"2024-03-16T09:43:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T07:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=51926"},"modified":"2024-03-16T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T07:44:00","slug":"finnish-foreign-minister-western-countries-should-not-rule-out-sending-troops-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=51926","title":{"rendered":"Finnish Foreign Minister: Western countries should not rule out sending troops to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Western countries, including the United States, should not be completely opposed to the idea of sending troops to Ukraine if conditions there worsen, Finnish Foreign Minister Elena Valtonen said.<br>She added, &#8220;It is important not to rule everything out in the long term, because we never know how serious the situation is. But the Finnish position is clear: We are not sending any forces now and we are not willing to discuss it.&#8221; Interview with NatSec Daily.<br>Valtonen noted that the most important thing now is for Ukraine&#8217;s supporters to continue sending aid. As one of the two newest faces of NATO, Finland has been doing its part: it has spent more than 0.6% of Ukraine&#8217;s GDP \u2013 the United States has allocated about 0.3% to Kiev \u2013 and has exceeded the alliance&#8217;s GDP spending target of 2%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMany European countries can do much more,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed the possibility of sending forces to Ukraine, although some Western leaders do not support this idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western countries, including the United States, should not be completely opposed to the idea of sending troops to Ukraine if conditions there worsen, Finnish Foreign Minister Elena Valtonen said.She added, &#8220;It is important not to rule everything out in the long term, because we never know how serious the situation is. But the Finnish position [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":51927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[12443,813,996,2399],"class_list":["post-51926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international-news","tag-finnish-foreign-minister","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51928,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51926\/revisions\/51928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}