Western Troop Presence in Ukraine ‘Open Secret,’ Poland’s Top Diplomat Says

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A member of the military walks past a MBDA Storm Shadow/Scalp missile at the Farnborough Airshow, southwest of London, on July 17, 2018. Ben Stansall/AFP via Getty Images

The presence of Western troops in Ukraine is an “open secret,” Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, said in recent remarks to the German press.

“As [German Chancellor Olaf Scholz] has said, there are already some troops from big [Western] countries in Ukraine,” he told the German Press Agency on March 20.