BRUSSELS, April 4. /TASS/. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will create a mission to support Ukraine, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said following a meeting of top NATO diplomats in Brussels.

"We have made the decision to establish a NATO mission [on Ukraine]. This doesn’t mean that we’re entering the war, but rather that we’ll now be able to utilize NATO’s coordinating, training and planning capabilities to support [Ukraine] in a better manner," the Polish Foreign Ministry quoted him as saying on the X social network.

Earlier, Sikorski announced plans on creating such a mission before the meeting in Brussels. He noted that the mission will not participate in combat in Ukraine.

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 discussed the possibility of sending ground troops to Ukraine. According to the French leader, no consensus was reached on the issue but such a possibility cannot be ruled out in the future. After the meeting, most of the countries that took part in it, including Poland, stated that they had no plans to send troops to Ukraine and oppose the idea of direct involvement in military operations against Russia.