Russia issues warning as European leaders, Zelenskyy meet in Paris before Trump call

Russia's Foreign Ministry again warned that Moscow will not accept the presence of any Western troops in Ukraine as part of a future peace deal, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepared to meet a group of top European leaders in Paris on Thursday.

"Russia does not intend to discuss unacceptable foreign intervention in Ukraine in any form whatsoever," spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in comments published by the Foreign Ministry on Thursday. "Western war instigators view Ukraine as a testing ground for their military developments," she said.

Moscow has repeatedly rebuffed proposals for Western forces to be deployed to Ukraine in any capacity as part of a deal to end Russia's full-scale invasion of its neighbor, which began in February 2022.

Nonetheless, the prospect is still under discussion by NATO leaders and the Ukrainian government as an element of the security guarantees Kyiv says are needed to facilitate any U.S.-brokered peace deal.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/russia-issues-warning-european-leaders-100239464.html

Go home Zakharova. You're drunk again.