(Reuters) – -Germany’s defence minister on Monday harshly dismissed as untimely remarks by European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen on plans to ship European troops to Ukraine, saying she lacked the mandate to debate the matter.
Von der Leyen instructed the Monetary Instances in an interview revealed on Sunday that Europe is drawing up “fairly exact plans” for a multinational troop deployment to Ukraine as a part of post-conflict safety ensures that can have the backing of U.S. capabilities.
“These are issues that you do not focus on earlier than you sit down on the negotiating desk with many events which have a say within the matter,” the minister, Boris Pistorius, instructed journalists throughout a go to to an ammunition manufacturing facility in Cologne on Monday.
“I’d know higher than to remark or affirm such issues in any method, other than the truth that the European Union has no mandate or competency in any way on the subject of positioning troops,” he added.
Leyen instructed the FT on Sunday the deployment is ready to incorporate doubtlessly tens of hundreds of European-led troops, backed by help from the U.S., together with command and management techniques and intelligence and surveillance belongings.
(Reporting by Markus WacketWriting by Ludwig Burger, Enhancing by William Maclean)
