German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has categorically ruled out the deployment of ground troops from NATO states to Ukraine in its war against Russia. The chancellor opposed French President Emmanuel Macron’s earlier comments that nothing was off the table to make sure Kiev wins the war, including the deployment of French troops. At a Ukraine aid conference on Monday involving 20 heads of state and prime ministers, it was discussed that what was agreed at the beginning of the war “also applies in future, namely that there will be no ground troops, no soldiers on Ukrainian soil sent there by European…