No decisions in EU to send troops ‘in a direct way into Ukraine’ — Latvia’s top diplomat

The EU countries have not made any decisions on sending troops to Ukraine to take part in combat operations, although discussions on the issue continue, Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braze said, Report informs referring to TASS.

"I haven't seen any national or any sort of joint decision on sending troops or pilots in a direct way into Ukraine," the top diplomat said in an interview with Ukraine’s online newspaper European Pravda. "Discussions take place all the time, but again, we only can talk when the decisions are made," she added.

In addition, against the background of Kyiv’s shortage of air defense systems, a Ukrainian journalist asked Braze whether F-16 and F-35 fighter jets flown by European pilots could patrol the skies of Ukraine in the future. "I don't think those decisions have been made in such a way that European pilots would be flying in Ukrainian skies," the foreign minister said.