“On January 6 in Paris, participants of the so-called Coalition of the Willing led by the UK and France signed with the Kyiv regime a declaration ‘Reliable security guarantees for a solid and long-term peace’. The document turned out to be extremely far from a peaceful settlement”, - the comment by the spokesperson of the russian MFA, Maria Zakharova, says.
According to her, the kremlin is dissatisfied with the idea of deploying multinational forces in Ukraine as a security guarantee against a potential invasion by the russian army in the future.
“In this regard, the MFA of Russia warns that the deployment on the territory of Ukraine of military units, military facilities, warehouses and other infrastructure of Western countries will be qualified as a foreign intervention posing a direct threat to the security not only of Russia, but also of other European countries”, - comrade Zakharova stated.
All such units and facilities will be “regarded as legitimate military targets of the armed forces of the russian federation”. However she did not specify which norms of international law allow russia to have “legitimate targets” on the territory of a sovereign state.
The spokesperson of the MFA once again stated that a “peaceful resolution of the conflict is possible exclusively on the basis” of accepting the russian ultimatum: “Ukraine’s return to a neutral non-aligned status, its demilitarization and denazification, Kyiv’s observance of linguistic, cultural, religious rights and human freedoms of ethnic russians, russian-speaking citizens, representatives of national minorities, as well as recognition of the current territorial realities that have developed as a result of the implementation of the right of peoples to self-determination”.