Russia doubled down on its longstanding position of declaring Western forces in Ukraine “legitimate targets” on Thursday, days after France and the UK pledged to send troops there in the event of a peace deal.
“The Russian Foreign Ministry warns that the deployment of military units, military facilities, warehouses, and other infrastructure of Western countries on the territory of Ukraine will be classified as foreign intervention,” spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a statement.
She was responding to a “declaration of intent” signed by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday at the latest meeting of the so-called Coalition of the Willing, where they agreed to deploy a multinational force to guarantee Ukraine’s security..
Source CNN
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/6/ukraine-talks-in-paris-yield-significant-progress-on-security-pledges
Yesterday reported.
acron, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a declaration of intent after the talks, setting out the framework for such a deployment.
Macron said that Paris could contribute “several thousand” troops.
In a sign of closer transatlantic coordination, the summit was also attended by US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared ?Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, as well as Washington’s top general in Europe, Alexus Grynkewich. It marked the first time the US envoys had joined the coalition’s talks.
Witkoff, who has led talks with Russia, ?said that Trump “strongly stands behind security protocols” and that the guarantees are “important, so that the people of Ukraine know that when this ends, it ends forever”.
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