Did Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis divulge that Britain, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia expressed their willingness to send troops to Ukraine during the February 26, 2024, talks in Paris? No, that's not true: A statement posted on his website indicated that Mitsotakis did not mention these countries in his remarks following the summit.
The claim appeared in a post on February 28, 2024, no longer available on TikTok but archived here. The text (translated from Czech and Polish to English by Lead Stories staff) read:
The prime minister of Greece divulged who wanted to send their troops to Ukraine!They were:Great BritainPolandLithuaniaEstoniaLatviaAre you surprised?
This is what the post looked like at the time of writing:
This video is a Czech version of a February 28, 2024, post (archived here) that first appeared on a Polish TikTok account called @piotrekkrawczyk20.
This is what the original Polish post looked like at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Tue Mar 11 10:32:12 2024 UTC)
European leaders did indeed discuss the deployment of troops to Ukraine during the Paris summit convened on February 26, 2024, by French President Emmanuel Macron to address support for the war-torn country, which was invaded by Russia two years prior. However, as per post-summit statements to reporters published on his office website (archived here) and in news reports (archived here), the Greek prime minister did not specify any countries inclined to send soldiers to Ukrainian battlefields.
Moreover, both Polish and British leaders dismissed the notion of deploying their troops to Ukraine while addressing reporters following the Paris meeting, as corroborated by news reports (archived here, here and here) and a fact check from Lead Stories on February 28, 2024.
