Russia has once again categorically rejected the deployment of troops from Nato countries in Ukraine amid US-led efforts to end the war.
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The United Kingdom has repeatedly suggested the possibility that foreign troops could be sent to Ukraine once a peace deal is reached.
Bur Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said in Moscow that Britain was continuing to seek what she called “an escalation” in the conflict with such plans and was pushing Nato members to a dangerous limit, from which a major global conflict was not far off.
She was reacting to statements by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying he was prepared to deploy such troops. Ukraine is in favour of this as a security guarantee.
“We reiterate our repeatedly expressed position that we deny any scenarios that envisage the deployment of a military contingent to Ukraine with the participation of Nato states, which could lead to an uncontrollable escalation of the conflict with unpredictable consequences,” Zakharova added.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin recently declared during and after his meeting with US President Donald Trump in Alaska last week that he wanted to end the war.