The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, has categorically assured that Spanish troops will not be deployed in Ukraine because what Spain wants is peace in this country. “There are not going to be Spanish troops in Ukraine, of course not, because we want peace, the same thing that the Ukrainian Government wants,” Albares responded to ERC deputy Jordi Salvador, who took the opportunity to ask the minister about this issue during the Plenary Session of the Congress of Deputies.

“The Government of Spain in Gaza and Ukraine wants the same thing, peace and respect for International Law“stressed the minister, who had to respond to the Catalan deputy about the conflict in the Strip, after he had taken advantage of his time to inquire about the Government’s position on this matter.

The minister spokesperson, Pilar Alegría, had already intervened this Tuesday in the debate sparked by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, who on Monday left the door open to a future sending of European troops to Ukraine to support the Ukrainian forces against Russia, to make clear the Executive’s disagreement. The French president met about twenty leaders, mostly from the EU, in Paris on Monday to analyze how to continue supporting Ukraine two years after Russia’s invasion of the country.

At the end of the meeting, Macron said that although “there is currently no consensus to officially send troops on the ground,” “nothing should be excluded.” “We will do whatever it takes to prevent Russia from winning this war.“said the French president, who, however, did not want to clarify whether France would be willing to deploy troops in Ukraine.

In this sense, he stressed that “many of those who now say never” are the same as They also ruled out sending tanksfighter jets or long-range missiles, something that has already happened.