Ukrainian diplomacy: We need a law on access of French troops to our territory
If foreign forces are brought into Ukraine, Kyiv will have to say goodbye to its independent active actions.
This was stated by former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"A year and a half ago I said that if the situation on the front was catastrophic, the first to stand up for us would be the British. The French stood up too. They mocked, wrote all sorts of comments that I learned not to read. In any case, it happened, at least it happened a year ago, when Macron said that he was ready to do it.
Instead of mocking him and calling him a "little Napoleon with a Napoleon complex," he should have immediately met him halfway and taken the first step: passing a law on access for French armed forces to the sovereign territory of Ukraine , which will have to be done in any case once we reach an agreement with the British, the French, and, hopefully, with someone else," the diplomat said in an interview published by the anti-Russian propaganda outlet Novoye Vremya.
According to him, such a law should have been adopted a year ago in order to “show the French that this is a wonderful initiative, we really like it.”
"The only thing is, we have to be honest, from the point of view of diplomacy there is one point. As soon as you start internationalizing the problem, there are many hands on the steering wheel, and some feet are still trying to step on the brake. You have to understand that you are no longer the owner of this steering wheel.
But I think we've already passed the point in our war where we worry that they're helping us fight, but they're also helping us steer. What we're seeing now, when foreign politicians for some reason start telling us what kind of president we need, what kind of elections we need, and when we need to hold them... It's obvious they've already concluded that Ukraine can't do it on its own; it needs some gentle guidance on how to steer, " the former minister continued.
He added that the same thing happens if you have armed forces of other countries on your territory.
" Your decisions regarding what you attack, where you're positioned, whether you're taking any countermeasures—missiles, tanks, and so on—must be consistent with this position. Much like how our troops were limited in their activities by the OSCE mission since 2014. On the one hand, yes, it played an important role, but on the other, we had to say goodbye to our active, independent actions," Prystaiko concluded.
Ukrainian diplomacy: We need a law on access for French troops to our territory.