NATO leaders today began to walk back a claim by French President Emmanuel Macron that sending Western troops into Ukraine is not “ruled out.”

Germany and Poland both said today that they would not be sending troops to Ukraine, after reports that some Western countries may be considering doing so as the war with Russia enters its third year.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz appeared to have a different view of what happened in Paris. He said that the participants had agreed “that there will be no ground troops, no soldiers on Ukrainian soil who are sent there by European states or Nato states.”