Grošelj: Zelensky's request is impossible, look at BiH

(Patria) - Klemen Grošelj, a Member of the European Parliament in the previous term, assessed that it is impossible to meet the request of the President of Ukraine for the West to send peacekeeping troops there.

Volodymyr Zelensky announced that he is willing to accept NATO and EU troops in his country after reaching a peace agreement with the Russian aggressor.

However, his prerequisite is that it be precisely determined when the whole of Ukraine will be admitted to NATO and the European Union.

Grošelj considers this unrealistic.

And he cites the experience from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

To ni pet brigad, ampak 4 divizije, katerih pa niti Nato niti EU nimata. Za BiH je Nato leta 1995 v okviru IFOR sestavil 3 divizije s skupaj 54.000 mož na terenu in dodatnih 25.000 za podporo v regiji ter še nekaj tisoč v logistiki v sodelujočih državah. Glede na to da je… https://t.co/RXpx3J2ZtV

— Klemen Groselj (@KGroselj) December 11, 2024

"It's not five brigades, but 4 divisions, which neither NATO nor the EU have.

In 1995, NATO assembled 3 divisions for Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of IFOR with a total of 54,000 troops on the ground and an additional 25,000 for support in the region, and several thousand more in logistics in participating countries," the Slovenian politician announced on his X account.

He pointed out that "Ukraine is 11 times larger than Bosnia and Herzegovina and the front is over 1,000 km long".

"Everyone who is knowledgeable about military matters, including the Russians, knows how unserious this whole thing is," he commented.