During his regular media briefing this morning, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov appeared to dispute Donald Trump’s claim that Russia would accept European peacekeeping troops in Ukraine.
Addressing reporters, Peskov said the Kremlin had nothing to add to the foreign ministry’s position on the unacceptability of Nato peacekeepers in Ukraine.
On Monday, in a joint appearance with France’s president Emmanuel Macron, the US president claimed that he had spoken with Vladimir Putin about the potential deployment of Nato peacekeeping forces in Ukraine, and the Russian president said he “has no problem with it.”
Last week Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said that the deployment of Nato troops under another flag – “under the flag of the European Union or under national flags” he said – would be “unacceptable” to Russia. Peskov’s comments this morning appear to suggest, contrary to Trump’s assertion, remains the case.
