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French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné has clarified comments made by President Emmanuel Macron, who ignited a debate among Kiev’s military backers by saying that deploying Western troops to Ukraine had not been “ruled out.” New ways of supporting Ukraine that respond to very specific needs have to be considered, Séjourné said on Tuesday in the French National Assembly. He was thinking in particular of cyber defence, the production of weapons in Ukraine and mine clearance, France’s top diplomat added. “Some of these actions could require a presence on Ukrainian territory without reaching th…