Western countries need to discuss the idea of sending troops to Ukraine and stop drawing "red lines" on the issue of assistance.
This was stated by Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, according to LRT.
"I welcomed the idea of sending missions to the territory of Ukraine and still believe that we should discuss this idea. Of course, it would be best if we all unanimously agreed on the need for this and very well evaluated the intelligence and other information we have at our disposal," Nauseda said.
According to him, fear of possible Kremlin reaction cannot be the determining factor in European decision-making.
Nauseda also emphasized that if relying on the reaction of the dictator Vladimir Putin, Western countries will never make decisions.
"And that's why yesterday I said to President Macron and to the media that we must stop drawing red lines for ourselves," said the Lithuanian president.
Nauseda believes that by drawing red lines, Western countries only help Putin, who begins to think that they are predictable and that he can manipulate them.
Nauseda also warned that Europe will not avoid a wider war by passively watching bloodshed near its doorstep, as neither Ukraine, nor the Baltic countries, nor Poland will satisfy Russia's territorial ambitions.
In his speech at the opening of the Paris Defense and Strategy Forum, Nauseda said that it would be a "fundamental mistake" to think that Putin's Russia can be appeased by giving up territories.
