About 30 Western leaders conducted interviews with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelsky in Paris on Thursday, focusing on potential security guarantees for Kiev in the case of a peace agreement with Russia. The meeting described as a “coalition of willing” included leaders from Europe, Australia, Japan and Canada, while some neighboring nations joined video-link.
The aim of the discussions is to ensure support for a framework that could help end the war, now in the third year.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev emerged in the UK about his decision to use frozen Russian assets to finance the defense of Ukraine.
“British thieves transferred Russian money to neo -Nazis. The consequences? Britain has committed crimes,” Medvedev wrote on a telegram.
Warning of retaliation
Medvedev, now the Vice -Chairman of the Russian Security Council, warned that Moscow could entertain British property in Russia.
“Given that money cannot be obtained in court for obvious reasons, our country has only one way to return the valuables: return it in nature,” he said, threatening to confiscate the “UK koruna.”
Medvedeck warned that Russia’s retaliation against “any illegal seizure of frozen Russian or profits” focusing on the “UK koruna”, including British property in Russia.
He also called British Foreign Minister David Lammy with an “English idiot” and indicated the possibility of other Russian land seizures in Ukraine.
Moscow refuses to deploy soldiers
The Russian Foreign Ministry reiterated that Moscow in Ukraine will not accept any Western military presence under the peace agreement.
“Russia does not intend to discuss unacceptable foreign intervention in Ukraine in any form,” said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. She accused the Western nations of using Ukraine as “testing of their military development”.
Zakharova also warned that the proposed protection for Kiev “is not for Ukraine with security guarantees, it is a guarantee of threat to the European continent”.
NATO, KYIV weighs options
Despite Moscow’s objections, NATO leaders and the Ukrainian government are still discussing the possibility of incorporating Western forces into a wider package of security guarantees. Kyiv claimed that credible protection is necessary to facilitate any peace agreement with Russia mediated by U.
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