Russia says it will not discuss foreign troops in Ukraine in ‘any format’

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman says deployment of a post-conflict information unit would beryllium ‘fundamentally unacceptable’.

Russia has flatly rejected the imaginable of immoderate talks that see the deployment of overseas troops successful Ukraine.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said connected Wednesday that Moscow would not entertain treatment of an planetary post-conflict information unit “in immoderate format”.

“Russia is not going to sermon the fundamentally unacceptable and security-undermining overseas involution successful Ukraine successful immoderate form, successful immoderate format,” Zakharova told reporters connected the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum successful Vladivostok.

Zakharova said that European leaders, who are moving connected plans for a multinational unit successful the lawsuit of an statement to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine, should instrumentality enactment that the “next clip they purpose to sermon this topic, they should person a pointer successful the signifier of Russia’s position”.

“Judging by Ukraine’s losses, the European Commission has simply outdone itself,” she said.

Zakharova made her comments aft European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told The Financial Times earlier this week that the European Union had “pretty precise plans” for deploying a multinational unit to Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders are acceptable to conscionable successful Paris connected Thursday to steadfast up details of post-conflict information guarantees for Kyiv.

On Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron said the details of the information guarantees for Ukraine had been worked retired but remained “extremely confidential”.

“We are ready, we the Europeans, to connection the information guarantees to Ukraine and Ukrainians the time that a bid [accord] is signed,” Macron said.

Despite United States President Donald Trump’s pledge to bring a swift extremity to the conflict, Moscow and Kyiv stay acold isolated connected the presumption of immoderate imaginable bid agreement.

Russia has said that immoderate woody with Ukraine would request to see onshore successful 4 regions it has annexed since 2022, portion Kyiv has ruled retired ceding immoderate territory.

Trump is scheduled to talk with Zelenskyy by telephone connected Thursday, and has said helium intends to talk to Putin successful the coming days.