Overseas Ministry spokeswoman says deployment of a post-conflict safety drive can be ‘essentially unacceptable’.
Revealed On 4 Sep 2025
Russia has flatly rejected the prospect of any talks that contemplate the deployment of international troops in Ukraine.
Ministry of Overseas Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated on Wednesday that Moscow wouldn’t entertain dialogue of a global post-conflict safety drive “in any format”.
“Russia is just not going to debate the essentially unacceptable and security-undermining international intervention in Ukraine in any type, in any format,” Zakharova instructed reporters on the sidelines of the Japanese Financial Discussion board in Vladivostok.
Zakharova stated that European leaders, who’re engaged on plans for a multinational drive within the occasion of an settlement to finish the struggle in Ukraine, ought to take word that the “subsequent time they goal to debate this matter, they need to have a pointer within the type of Russia’s place”.
“Judging by Ukraine’s losses, the European Fee has merely outdone itself,” she stated.
Zakharova made her feedback after European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen instructed The Monetary Instances earlier this week that the European Union had “fairly exact plans” for deploying a multinational drive to Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders are set to fulfill in Paris on Thursday to agency up particulars of post-conflict safety ensures for Kyiv.
On Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron stated the main points of the safety ensures for Ukraine had been labored out however remained “extraordinarily confidential”.
“We’re prepared, we the Europeans, to supply the safety ensures to Ukraine and Ukrainians the day {that a} peace [accord] is signed,” Macron stated.
Regardless of United States President Donald Trump’s pledge to carry a swift finish to the battle, Moscow and Kyiv stay far aside on the phrases of any potential peace settlement.
Russia has stated that any take care of Ukraine would wish to incorporate land in 4 areas it has annexed since 2022, whereas Kyiv has dominated out ceding any territory.
Trump is scheduled to talk with Zelenskyy by telephone on Thursday, and has stated he intends to talk to Putin within the coming days.