Putin says foreign troops deployed to Ukraine would be legitimate targets

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that any foreign forces deployed in Ukraine, especially while their invasion is still “legitimate targets” by Moscow forces.

Putin’s comments came hours after European leaders re -adhered to a potential peace of peace, a possibility that Moscow has repeatedly described as “unacceptable.”

“If any forces appear there, especially during the fighting, we assume that they will be legitimate goals,” he said during a committee at the Eastern Economic Forum in the city of Vladivostok

Putin also rejected the idea of ​​peacekeeping forces in Ukraine after a final peace agreement, saying: “No one should suspect” that Moscow will comply with a treaty to stop its full conquest for 3 years to its neighbor.

He said that security guarantees will be necessary for both Russia and Ukraine.

The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later said that Moscow will need “legally binding documents” to determine these agreements. “Of course, you cannot take the word anyone for something,” he told Russian News Outlet PresMenty I Fakty.

European leaders pledged the power to maintain peace in Ukraine

Putin’s comments follow notes from French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday that 26 Ukraine allies pledged to deploy the forces as a “reassurance force” for Ukraine as soon as the fighting ends.

Macron spoke after a meeting in Paris of the so -called coalition in The Risping, a group of 35 countries that support Ukraine. He said that 26 countries have committed to deploying forces in Ukraine – or maintaining a presence on the ground, at sea or in the air – to help ensure the security of the country the day after the fire or peace.

In his speech to the participants in the International Economic Conference, the Ambrocanti Forum said on Friday, and Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski said it is important to ensure that security is “starting work now, during the war, and not only after its end.”

He said he could not reveal more details because they are “sensitive and related to the military field.”

Done -aircraft strokes continue

Russian forces attacked Ukraine overnight with 157 strikes and drones, in addition to seven missiles of various types. She said that the air defenses were brought down or disturbed 121 drones.

The head of the regional administration, Serhii Lysak, wrote on social media. The regional administration also said that an unlimited “facility” had been put in the strike, but it did not give more details.

Lysak shared pictures of residential buildings with damaged surfaces, glass fragments lying on the floor and people with wooden panels to cover the broken windows. “Special houses have been damaged. Windows have been destroyed in residential buildings,” he wrote.

Meanwhile, in the Chirnhif region of Ukraine, north of Kiev, Russian drones attacked the infrastructure in the Novhurud-Sephrsk region, leaving at least 15 settlements without electricity, according to the local authorities.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said on Friday that Russian forces destroyed 92 Ukrainian drones overnight. Local social media channels in the city of Raysan, about 200 km (125 miles) southeast Moscow, reported that the Rosneft oil refinery in the city had been targeted. Share the videos that appeared showing a fire on the night sky.

The regional governor of Rayzan, Pavel Malikov, said that the drone wreckage fell on an “industrial institution”, but it did not give more details, instead, the residents warn against publishing pictures of air defenses on social media.

Ukraine has climbed attacks on Russian oil infrastructure, which says the military fuel effort in Moscow is in recent weeks. Future stations have succeeded in some regions of Russia in recent weeks, where car drivers are waiting for long lines and officials resorting to legalization or cutting off sales completely.