Former NATO Chief Warns of Possible Troop Deployment to Ukraine

Former NATO Secretary-General Anders Rasmussen has warned that a number of NATO countries could send troops to Ukraine if the war-torn country is not given security guarantees at a forthcoming summit. Rasmussen said that even if such guarantees were not agreed, members of the alliance would not allow the issue of Ukraine’s future NATO membership to be kept off the agenda at the Vilnius summit in July. Russia maintains that Ukraine’s accession to the alliance would be a “serious, significant threat to our country, to our country’s security”.