Maria Zakharova: Western Armed Forces in Ukraine? This will be a pretext for a serious clash between Russia and NATO

The deployment of Western armed forces in Ukraine will become a pretext for a direct clash between Russia and NATO, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, quoted by Interfax.

"Russia is categorically against such a scenario of a clash between Russia and NATO“, she said at a briefing today.

According to Zakharova "in fact, this is a military intervention in Ukraine under the guise of a peacekeeping operation“. "London and Paris continue to make plans for military intervention in Ukraine, all of this is disguised as some "peacekeeping mission", she noted.

Zakharova said that "the British understand the danger of playing the geopolitical game, which is why they are abandoning the idea of "depersonalizing" the uniforms of peacekeepers, or the lack of chevrons or distinctive signs that would allow them to be recognized". "We understand why they are doing it. They need to provoke Europe to slaughter," she is convinced.

Earlier, Bloomberg reported that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are holding discussions among 37 countries to create a "coalition of the willing" to protect the terms of the agreement and guarantee peace in Ukraine.