Britain and France have each mentioned that they had been prepared to send a peacekeeping force to observe any ceasefire in Ukraine. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese mentioned his nation was additionally open to requests.
“It doesn’t matter below what label NATO contingents had been to be deployed on Ukrainian territory: be it the European Union, NATO, or in a nationwide capability,” Grushko mentioned.
“If they seem there, it implies that they’re deployed within the battle zone with all the results for these contingents as events to the battle.”
Grushko mentioned {that a} deployment of unarmed post-conflict observers may be mentioned solely as soon as a peace settlement is labored out.
“We are able to discuss unarmed observers, a civilian mission that will monitor the implementation of particular person points of this settlement, or assure mechanisms,” Grushko mentioned. “Within the meantime, it is simply sizzling air.”
French President Emmanuel Macron mentioned in remarks printed on Sunday that the stationing of peacekeeping troops in Ukraine is a query for Kyiv to resolve and never Moscow.
Grushko mentioned that European allies of Kyiv ought to perceive that solely the exclusion of Ukraine’s membership in NATO and the elimination of the potential for deploying overseas army contingents on its territory will work for the area.
“Then the safety of Ukraine and all the area in a broader sense can be ensured since one of many root causes of the battle can be eradicated,” Grushko mentioned.
