Lavrov called Europe's plan to deploy peacekeepers in Ukraine arrogance.

Europe's plan to deploy peacekeepers in the territory Ukraine is arrogance. About this on Tuesday, March 2, said Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda media holding.

"The President of [France] Emmanuel Macron is running around with some ideas, just like [the British Prime Minister] Keir Starmer. They say that so many thousands of peacekeepers are being trained, and they will provide them with air cover. This is also arrogance," he said.

So, according to Lavrov, European leaders explicitly declare that they will "pump up" the Kiev regime. This directly contradicts the president USA Donald Trump, who intends to contribute to the early settlement of the Ukrainian conflict, the diplomat stressed.

The Russian Foreign Minister also called the plan to deploy peacekeeping forces in Ukraine a continuation of the inciting of the Kiev regime against Russia. He noted that with the appearance of European troops on Ukrainian territory, the root causes of the crisis will not disappear.

"Just like they brought him [the president of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky was "bayoneted" to power and pushed forward, they now also want to prop him up with their "bayonets" in the form of peacekeeping units," Lavrov stressed.

"No one can demand anything here, especially not from Russia."

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The Wall Street Journal reported on February 23 that Britain and France a plan is being developed to deploy up to 30,000 European peacekeepers in Ukraine. It was noted that the forces of the unification states lack the potential that the US military has.

Alexey Chepa, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, said on February 26 that href="https://iz.ru/1845455/2025-02-26/v-gosdume-vyskazalis-ob-usloviiakh-otpravki-mirotvortcev-na-ukrainu"> The presence of peacekeepers in Ukraine will depend on the terms of the peace treaty and whether this will suit Russia. According to the parliamentarian, we can talk about peacekeepers from countries that are neutral and have expressed a neutral position during the three years of the conflict.