Russia has no plans to discuss any potential sending foreign troops to Ukraine in any format, calling it “unacceptable,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova told reporters on Thursday (4) at local time.
She commented on the statements of President of the European CommissionUrsula Von Der Leyen, about the plans to send European troops to Ukraine, a measure that was also rejected by Germany.
In an interview with Financial Times on Sunday, von der Leyen said Europe was elaborating “very accurate plans” to send multinational troops to Ukraine as part of post-conflict security guarantees that will support US capabilities.
“Russia will not discuss a foreign intervention In Ukraine in any form or format that is fundamentally unacceptable and compromises any security, “Zakharova said in a weekly briefing with reporters.
The Minister of Defense of Germany It also tough rejected the comments of von der Leyen harshly, considering them premature.
Understand the war in Ukraine
Russia began the large -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and currently has about one fifth from the territory of the neighboring country.
Still in 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin decreed the annexation of four Ukrainian regions: Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizehzia.
The Russians slowly advance through the east and Moscow gives no signs of abandoning their main war goals. Meanwhile, Donald Trump, president of the United States, pressures for a peace agreement.
Ukraine has made increasingly bold attacks within Russia and says the operations aim to destroy essential infrastructure of the Russian army.
Putin’s government, in turn, intensified air attacks, including drones offensive. Both sides deny target civilians, but thousands died in the conflict, the vast majority of them Ukrainians.
Thousands of soldiers are also believed to have died on the front line, but neither side releases numbers of military lows.
The United States claim that 1.2 million people were injured or killed in the war.
