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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that Moscow would oppose the deployment of Western peacekeeping forces in Ukraine as part of an agreement to end the nearly three-year conflict.
French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk raised the idea of stationing foreign troops to enforce a possible peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine in early December.
In an interview published this week by the Russian Foreign Ministry, Lavrov told the TASS news agency that Moscow opposed this idea, as well as others proposed by US President-elect Donald Trump.
“We’re not satisfied with the proposals put forward by the president-elect’s representatives to postpone Ukraine’s NATO membership by 20 years and to send a peacekeeping contingent of British and European forces to Ukraine,” Lavrov said.
Moscow opposes peacekeeping forces
