“We will consider them legitimate targets.” Russia again threatens to send peacekeepers to Ukraine

Russia on Thursday reaffirmed its opposition to any deployment of foreign troops in Ukraine and denounced the “militarism” of Kiev's allies, gathered in the “Coalition of Will” and who agreed on Tuesday at a summit to send a multinational force to Ukraine as a security guarantee for this country after a possible peace agreement, AFP, EFE and Agerpres agencies report.

“The new militaristic declarations of the so-called Coalition of Volunteers (or Coalition of the Will) and the Kiev regime make them a real “axis of war”, said the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.

The 35 member states of the “Coalition of the Will”, most European countries supporting Ukraine in the war with Russia, agreed on Tuesday in Paris on the deployment of a multinational force in Ukraine and the monitoring under the “leadership” of the United States of a potential cease-fire, as soon as a peace treaty, still very hypothetical, will be concluded with Russia, on whose agreement, however, the implementation of Western security guarantees for Ukraine outlined by that coalition depends.

But “all these units and facilities will be considered legitimate military targets by the Russian armed forces,” the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry warned. “These warnings have been repeated several times at the highest level and remain relevant,” she insisted.