Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that Moscow could not consider “any options” for European peacekeepers being sent to Ukraine and that the idea was aimed at fuelling the conflict and making it harder to de-escalate.
French President Emmanuel Macron spoke in favour of the concept during talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, saying troops could be deployed to ensure that any peace deal was respected.
Trump said he accepted the idea and that Russian President Vladimir Putin did too, though the Kremlin later indicated that Russian opposition to it was unchanged.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is due to hold talks with Trump on Thursday, has said he would be ready to send British troops to Ukraine as part of any postwar peacekeeping force.