{"id":179849,"date":"2025-09-03T14:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=179849"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:22:04","slug":"western-troops-not-to-be-sent-to-ukraine-until-ceasefire-says-germanys-chancellor-merz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/179849\/","title":{"rendered":"Western troops not to be sent to Ukraine until ceasefire, says Germany\u2019s Chancellor Merz"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Germany&rsquo;s Chancellor Friedrich Merz has stated that there can be no discussion of sending Western troops to Ukraine until a ceasefire is established, Merz told Sat.1.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No troops will be sent to Ukraine until that moment,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Merz added that even if a ceasefire is achieved, sending troops would be possible for Germany only &ldquo;with serious reservations,&rdquo; as there are &ldquo;many obstacles&rdquo; in the way. He noted that Germany currently has no plans to carry out a military mission in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the chancellor noted that decisions regarding military aid to Ukraine fall under the authority of the so-called coalition of volunteers, not the European Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the Financial Times that Europe has a &ldquo;fairly precise plan&rdquo; for stationing troops in Ukraine after a ceasefire, within the framework of providing security guarantees.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&rsquo;s Chancellor Friedrich Merz has stated that there can be no discussion of sending Western troops to Ukraine until a ceasefire is established, Merz told Sat.1. &ldquo;No troops will be sent to Ukraine until that moment,&rdquo; he said. Merz added that even if a ceasefire is achieved, sending troops would be possible for Germany only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":179843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179850,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179849\/revisions\/179850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}