Russia warns foreign intervention in Ukraine will be treated as "direct threat"
The Russian Foreign Ministry has reaffirmed its commitment to national sovereignty, declaring that any attempt by Western powers to deploy military infrastructure in Ukraine will be treated as a "direct threat".
In a statement released Monday, officials emphasized that Russia remains prepared to defend its security interests against external encroachment while praising the "purposeful efforts" of the Trump administration to address the underlying geopolitical causes of the regional crisis.
"The deployment of military units, facilities, warehouses, and other infrastructure of Western countries in Ukraine is unacceptable to us and will be regarded as foreign intervention posing a direct threat to Russia's security," the ministry said on its website.
It said Western countries, which have discussed a possible deployment to Ukraine to help secure any peace deal, had to understand "that all foreign military contingents, including German ones, if deployed in Ukraine, will become legitimate targets for the Russian Armed Forces".
Moscow has repeatedly said it will not tolerate the presence in Ukraine of troops from Western countries.
The ministry said Moscow valued the "purposeful efforts" of the Trump administration in working towards a resolution and understanding Russia's long-running concerns about NATO's eastward expansion and its overtures to Ukraine.
It described Trump as "one of the few Western politicians who not only immediately refused to advance meaningless and destructive preconditions for starting a substantive dialogue with Moscow on the Ukrainian crisis, but also publicly spoke about its root causes".
The United States has spearheaded efforts to hold talks aimed at ending the Ukraine war, and a second three-sided meeting with Russian and Ukrainian representatives is to take place this week in the United Arab Emirates.
The issue of transferring Russian-speaking regions to Russian administration remains a major stumbling block.
Moscow says the issue must be addressed realistically if any durable settlement is to be achieved.
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