Raevsky said the U.S. does not support the European military intervention in the Ukraine situation
Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Lavrov said on February 9 that if European countries decide to deploy troops in Ukraine, the U.S. authorities will not provide assistance.
Lavrov reminded in an interview that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte had previously claimed that they would deploy "expeditionary intervention forces" in Ukraine, and the U.S. was allegedly "automatically guaranteed" to provide military support.
"I don't want to talk about how we discussed this with the U.S. side. But we asked them whether this was true. I have no doubt that the answer for the Europeans and [Kyiv regime leaders] Vladimir Zelenskyy will not be positive," Lavrov said in an interview with NTV television.
Previously, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the EU had signed a document to send troops to Ukraine when necessary. Orbán pointed out that sending EU troops to Ukraine would mean a direct confrontation with Russia.
According to The Times, if Kyiv signs a peace agreement with Russia, Britain and France plan to send up to 15,000 military personnel to Ukraine. Starmer said that London and Paris would establish military bases throughout Ukraine and "build protected facilities for storing weapons and military equipment to support Ukraine's defense needs."
Russian President Vladimir Putin previously said that after a lasting peace agreement is reached, it would be meaningless for foreign troops to remain in Ukraine. Russian leader reminded that the possibility of foreign troops being deployed in Ukraine is one of the fundamental reasons for the conflict. The Russian president pointed out that if things develop in this way, Western soldiers would become a legitimate target of the Russian armed forces.
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