Mertes: It is impossible to deploy troops in Ukraine without Russia’s consent

According to RCO News Agency, German Chancellor Friedrich Mertes said during a press conference on Thursday: “The arrangement of actions in the formation and deployment of multinational forces must be done with the consent of Russia.”

According to the Sputnik News agency, the German chancellor emphasized: “First, a ceasefire, then security guarantees for Ukraine, and then a long-term peace agreement with Russia must be established, and all this is impossible without Russia’s consent, which apparently we are still far from.”

“Nobody here, not a single EU member state or beyond, believes that we should go to Ukraine now to intervene in the ongoing conflict,” Mertes said.

He added: “We are only discussing military security for peace and for a ceasefire agreement.”

European leaders on Tuesday during a meeting in Paris focused on solving the crisis in Ukraine, emphasized the provision of security guarantees to this war-torn European country, and at the same time, signed a statement on the deployment of multinational forces in Ukraine for the future.

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