Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner that he also plans to discuss the territorial issue in today’s talks.
At the start of the meeting, the envoys stressed that they had already begun discussing with the Ukrainian and European sides what the security architecture would look like. They said it would cover Russia, Ukraine and the European continent and make it possible to end the conflict for good.
“Do I understand correctly that this [discussion] is closely tied to territorial issues?” Putin asked. The negotiators confirmed that it would cover territorial and other issues.
“That’s what we’ll turn to now, of course,” Putin replied.
If EU deploys troops to Ukraine after peace deal, ‘war will resume,’ Putin says
Any deployment of foreign troops to Ukraine following a peace agreement would trigger a resumption of hostilities, as their presence is unacceptable to Moscow, such foreign military personnel would become a legitimate target for the Russian Armed Forces, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting in the Kremlin with US special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
The Russian head of state reiterated that Moscow considers the presence of foreign troops in Ukraine unacceptable.
“The Europeans are aware of this. And what do we hear from them? That once a peace agreement is signed, they will immediately deploy troops to Ukrainian territory,” Putin said, outlining the situation. “What does this mean? We have already addressed this: for us, they are a legitimate target, meaning the war will resume immediately.”
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