NATO Members Might ‘Individually’ Send Troops to Ukraine, Former Alliance Chief Warns

Then-NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen gestures while speaking during a media conference ahead of a meeting of the North Atlantic Council at NATO headquarters in Brussels on April 1, 2014. Virginia Mayo/AP Photo

Individual NATO members could send troops to Ukraine if the alliance fails to provide Kyiv with security guarantees at next month’s summit in Lithuania, former NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen said last week.

“If NATO cannot agree on a clear path forward for Ukraine, there is a clear possibility that some countries individually might take action,” Rasmussen told the British newspaper The Guardian on June 7.