Russia Warns Of Escalation If NATO Sends ‘Peacekeeping’ Troops To Ukraine

The UK and France have been in talks about sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine

Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron have discussed sending British and French troops as a peacekeeping force after any potential deal to end the war.

According to the Telegraph: Press spokesmen for Downing Street and the Elysee Palace did not dispute that Sir Keir and Mr Macron discussed the possibility during their meeting at Chequers last week.

Details of the conversations are being kept under wraps by officials in London and Paris. However, multiple well-placed UK government sources have stressed Sir Keir is not yet fully signed up.

One Whitehall source told The Telegraph: “There are challenges over what we could support, what would we want to support, and the broader question about the threat that those troops may be under and whether that is escalatory.”

The proposal comes as European leaders scramble to work out how to continue supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty as president-elect Donald Trump pushes for Kyiv to strike a peace deal with Russia.

Last week Russia rejected the idea of NATO countries sending peacekeepers to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire in the war with Russia saying such a move would threaten to cause an “uncontrollable escalation”.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned the idea was totally unacceptable to Russia.

Russian intelligence claims that the idea is really a ploy to occupy Ukraine, and that NATO has plans to deploy 100,000 peacekepping troops to the country….a dangerous move that threatens a direct war with Russia.

WEF leader and EU Commission Vice President Kaja Kallas has said that the global elite are planning to break Russia up into “smaller nations” to neutralize the threat they pose to the global order.