Putin rejects Western security in Ukraine, warning troops would be target

Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected Western suggestions for “assurance power” in Ukraine after a Paris Summit aimed at concluding plans for security guarantees.

French President Emmanuel Macron said that 26 of Ukraine’s allies, officially decided to establish troops by “land, sea or air” to help provide security as soon as the war stops.

He did not detail any of the concerned countries.

Putin tried to disrupt the Allies’ initiative with a warning that any soldier deployed to Ukraine would be “legitimate targets”, especially if they haven’t been a plan to deploy immediately.

After the summit between Putin and US President Donald Trump in Alaska last month, a meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky briefly raised his hopes and a potential peace agreement.

Putin said he was ready to contact the Ukrainian leader on Friday, “But I don’t see much point. Why? Because it is almost impossible to reach an agreement with the Ukrainian side on key issues.”

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov praised Trump’s “very constructive efforts” in finding a solution, but attacked the “efforts of European countries to provoke the continuation of the war”.

Since the Alaska meeting, the “willing coalition”, led by the UK and France, is working hard to guarantee KYIV if an agreement is reached. These will include strengthening the Ukraine’s army and providing a “assurance power” to patrol any agreement.

Macron emphasized that any soldier will be deployed to prevent “new great aggression”, not on the façade. He said that the power “does not have the will or target of war against Russia”.

Zelensky described the decisions taken at the Thursday Paris meeting as the first concrete step.

The US did not clarify the scale of its participation. The French President said this would be finalized in the coming days.

Trump said that the US support may come “probably” in the form of air support and Zelensky said he was talking to the US leader About “Maximum protection for Ukraine’s sky”.

Trump said he had “established a very good dialogue” with Putin and plans to talk to him in the near future. Putin confirmed that he was a “open dialogue” with the American president on Friday.

Kiev believes that even if Russia does not agree, a ceasefire in Ukraine should be accepted before the attempt to achieve a broader peace agreement.

Answering questions in an economic forum in Vladivostok in the Far East of Russia, Putin said, “If the decisions that will lead to long -term peace are reached … [foreign troops’] existence [in Ukraine]”. Russia will comply with long -term peace, he added.

It is unlikely that Ukraine and Western allies will find their words convincing.

Putin also offered to host a summit with Ukraine in Moscow and offered to provide security.

When Steve Rosenberg of BBC stated that the proposal to Putin’s spokesman was more interested in the surrender of Ukraine than Russia’s peace agreement, Peskov replied: “Not at all. Not at all. He was invited to talk to Moscow.”

Zelensky mocked as proof that Moscow was not serious of Putin. Instead, several neutral cities were proposed, but Putin complained about “extreme demands”.

Zelensky, “We support any format, bilateral meeting, a three -sided meeting, I believe that Russia has done everything to postpone it.” He said.

Western leaders also believe that Russia has played for time to seize more Ukraine, because Russia’s 40 -month full -scale war grinds.

Putin, who spent China’s Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, on Wednesday, argues that his country’s army is moving forward on all the fronts in Ukraine.

Moscow insisted that Western forces should not be deployed to Ukraine, as well as insisting that this should be one of the countries that act as “guarantors” of Ukrainian security – an idea rejected by Kiev and his allies.

Putin’s spokesman told BBC to NATO, in other words, any foreign force would be a danger to Russia, “because we’re the enemy of NATO.”

NATO Chief Mark Rutte said that on Thursday, Russia is not a veto about the deployment of Western troops to Ukraine: “Why are we interested in what Russia think about the troops in Ukraine? This is a sovereign country. Not to decide.”

In case of an agreement, very few countries promised to place the troops in Ukraine on the ground, and the US has already rejected such a movement. European diplomats argued that the processing of unity at this point would probably help Putin’s narrative against the West.

However, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said that Western allies are now a “unbreakable pledge” to Ukraine, which is now supported by the United States, and that according to a Downing Street spokesman, it has to put pressure on Russia to end the war.

The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that the first priority after the meeting was to provide a ceasefire at a summit containing Zelensky and then to provide “strong security guarantees”.

For more than three and a half years after Russia’s full -scale Ukrainian invasion, Putin said this week is “a certain light at the end of the tunnel” and “options to ensure the security of Ukraine if the conflict ends”.

On Friday, however, he doubted the possibility of making any agreement by blaming the necessity of making any changes in the regions and making any changes approved by martial law.

Russia annexed the five Ukrainian regions illegally, but only one of them fully controls the Crimea.

British Defense Secretary John Healey praised Trump, who said, “He brought Putin to meet” and “did not close any option”.

Russia rejected the idea of ​​the first ceasefire and insisted that its campaign would not end before a complete peace agreement.

A source at the Palace of élysée argued that there were several examples of supplies that lasted without a complete peace agreement before the negotiations on Thursday.

The source pointed to the border line between North and South Korea, where a ceasefire has been a signal to North Korea for years, with a powerful armed, allied American distribution.

The source was extremely important for the Ukrainians of this concept.