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Russia will attack any Western peacekeepers deployed in Ukraine without prior consent from Moscow, said senior Russian diplomat Rodion Miroshnik.

 

He said Moscow forces will treat and engage any unauthorised peacekeepers in Ukraine as legitimate military targets.

 

He made these comments following EU military committee Chairman Robert Brieger’s remarks during an interview in which he was quoted saying that “a ceasefire in the Ukraine conflict could be enforced by EU and international peacekeepers under a UN mandate.”

 

“Any contingent entering the territory of Ukraine without the consent and permission of Russia is a military target with quite understandable consequences,” Miroshnik said.

 

He strongly condemned the remarks, saying, why pretend? The attempts to invent ‘peacekeepers’ are not at all for establishing peace, but only attempts to use pseudo-humane methods to save [Ukrainian leader Vladimir] Zelensky’s Kiev regime from defeat," he said.

 

Meanwhile, Zelensky, who is staring at an imminent defeat in Ukraine following Russian claims that they are now in control of the majority of Eastern Ukraine, said at least 200,000 European soldiers would need to be deployed to enforce a ceasefire between Kiev and Moscow. “From all the Europeans? 200,000; it’s a minimum. It’s a minimum; otherwise, it’s nothing.”

 

Additionally, several Western countries, including Britain, Germany, and France, have expressed their wish to send peacekeeping forces to uphold a possible ceasefire between the two nations.

 

In contrast, Moscow is sensing a conspiracy in these claims, saying that the West is trying to rush troops to the battleground under the guise of a peacekeeping force and subsequently rejecting the idea.

 

Russia is “not satisfied” with proposals to postpone Ukraine’s NATO accession or “to introduce a peacekeeping contingent of ‘British and European forces’ into Ukraine,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said late last month.

 

While Moscow is ready to resume peace talks with Kiev, it has stated that it will not allow a temporary freeze to the conflict, which would only serve to provide Ukraine breathing room to rearm.