Putin says that Russia would consider foreign troops deployed in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that any foreign troop deployed in Ukraine, particularly while the large -scale invasion of his country is still ongoing, would be considered “legitimate objectives” by Moscow’s forces. Putin’s comments occurred hours after European leaders replaced their commitment to provide a possible peacekeeping force as part of the security guarantees for Ukraine if a fire is remembered.

Moscow has repeatedly described the perspective that Western forces were deployed in Ukraine, even after the fight ends, “unacceptable.”

“If any troop appears there, especially while fighting, we assume that they will be legitimate objectives,” said the Russian leader during a discussion panel in the Eastern Economic Forum in the Russian city of the Far East of Vladivostok.

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Putin dismissed on Friday the idea that it would be required that any peace maintenance force in Ukraine monitor a final peace agreement, saying “no one should doubt” that Moscow would fulfill a treaty to stop his large -scale invasion of 3 and a half years of his neighbor. Putin flatly denied for months Any intention to launch its invasion in 2022, although the Biden administration accused him of making clear plans for it.

He said Friday that security guarantees would be needed for both Russia and Ukraine in case of Alto El Fuego.

Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, later said Moscow would need “legally binding documents” to describe such agreements. “Of course, you can’t simply take anyone’s word for something,” he told Russian News Outlet Argumenty I Fakty.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that thousands of Western troops could be deployed as part of security guarantees with an agreement to end war.

“It will definitely not be a single digit, but in the thousands. And that is a fact, but it is still too early to talk about it,” said Zelenskyy at a press conference in western Ukraine, with the president of the European Council Antonio Costa, according to the News news agency.

Putin and Zelenskyy’s comments occur after French president Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that 26 of Ukraine allies had pledged to deploy troops as a “tranquility force” for Ukraine when the fight ends.

Macron spoke after a meeting in Paris of the so -called Willing coalition, a group of 35 countries that support Ukraine. He said that 26 of the countries had promised to deploy troops in Ukraine, or maintain a presence on land, in the sea or in the air, to help guarantee the security of the country on the day after any fire or peace is achieved.

When addressing the participants of the International Economic Conference, the Ambrosetti forum on Friday, Zelenskyy said it was important that security guarantees that “begin to work now, during the war, and not only after it ends.”

He said he could not reveal more details since they were “sensitive and related to the military sphere.”

The Russian troops attacked Ukraine during the night with 157 strikes of strike and lure, as well as seven missiles of various types, the Ukraine Air Force reported Friday. Aerial defenses knocked or struck 121 of the drones, he said.

An attack damaged multiple residential buildings in DNIPRO in the center of Ukraine, the head of the Regional Administration Serhii Lysak wrote on social networks. The regional administration also said that an un specified “installation” had caught fire on the strike, but did not give more details.

Lysak shared photos of residential buildings with damaged roofs, glass fragments found on the floor and people transporting wooden boards to cover broken windows. “The private houses were damaged. The windows in the apartment buildings shattered,” he wrote.

Meanwhile, in the Cernihiv region of Ukraine, north of kyiv, the Russian drones attacked the infrastructure in the Noahorod-Siversk district, leaving at least 15 settlements without electricity, local authorities reported.

Meanwhile, Russian troops destroyed 92 Ukrainian drones during the night, the Russian Ministry of Defense said Friday. The local social networks channels in the city of Ryazan, approximately 125 miles southeast of Moscow, reported that the Rosneft state -owned oil refinery of the city had been attacked. They shared videos that seemed to show a fire against the night sky.

The local governor Pavel Malkov said that drone debris had fallen into an “industrial company”, but did not give more details, but warn residents not to publish images of aerial defenses on social networks.

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