VIENNA, March 17. /TASS/. Austria does not plan to send troops to Ukraine, citing neutrality, the country’s Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg told the ORF TV channel.

"I view such discussions as unnecessary. Clearly, it's a ‘no' from Austria. We will stick to our neutrality. There will be neither troop deployment nor supplies of military hardware, weapons and ammunition to Ukraine," he pointed out.

According to Schallenberg, NATO itself is still waffling on the matter.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on February 26 that some 20 Western countries taking part in a recent Paris meeting on further assistance for Kiev had touched upon the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine. According to Macron, no consensus was reached on the issue but such a possibility cannot be ruled out in the future.