{"id":3118,"date":"2025-02-22T10:58:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T11:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2025-02-22T12:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T12:27:43","slug":"foreign-troops-deploying-to-ukraine-not-realistic-zelenskys-top-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/foreign-troops-deploying-to-ukraine-not-realistic-zelenskys-top-aide\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign troops deploying to Ukraine not realistic \u2013 Zelensky\u2019s top aide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Europe should focus on providing more weapons instead, Mikhail Podoliak has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peacekeeping forces or soldiers from other countries being deployed to Ukraine is not a realistic prospect, Mikhail Podoliak, the top adviser to the country\u2019s leader Vladimir Zelensky, said on Friday.<\/p>\n

Podoliak made the statement in an interview with Polish radio station RMF just days after a number of European top officials gathered for an emergency meeting in Paris. Ahead of the event, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was \u201cready and willing\u201d<\/em> to put his nation\u2019s troops on the ground in Ukraine to help secure a peace deal.<\/p>\n

Podoliak, however, stated that a deployment of foreign peacekeeping forces or soldiers \u201cdo not seem very realistic scenarios for now.\u201d<\/em> Instead, he suggested that Europe should increase its defense spending and together with Kiev \u201cfocus on the development of arms\u201d<\/em> and continue support \u201cin this way.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Are the EU and Zelensky planning to open a new front against both Russia and the US?<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The comments come after Russian and American officials met in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to discuss future negotiations on settling the Ukraine crisis. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly voiced his intent to bring the conflict to a quick resolution.<\/p>\n

Following the talks, Russia\u2019s top diplomat, Sergey Lavrov, stated that Moscow firmly rejects NATO troops being deployed to Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Ministry has consistently warned that Moscow views any European peacekeeping contingent in Ukraine as a provocative step that could further escalate the conflict.<\/p>\n

Starmer is scheduled to visit Washington next week, where, according to The Telegraph, he will present Donald Trump with a plan to send 30,000 European troops to Ukraine and will try to secure American protection for the deployment. Zelensky claimed in January that Ukraine may need 200,000 European soldiers to guarantee a peace deal.<\/p>\n

Last week, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ruled out deploying American troops as part of potential security guarantees to Kiev.<\/p>\n

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\n READ MORE: <\/span>UK could deploy fighter jets over Ukraine \u2013 The Times
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According to Politico, Brussels is preparing a military aid package of at least \u20ac6 billion ($6.2 billion) for Kiev, which would include 1.5 million artillery shells and air defense systems. The package would be one of the EU\u2019s largest military aid injections since the start of Russia\u2019s military operation in 2022. It could be announced ahead of a visit by EU commissioners to Kiev on February 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Europe should focus on providing more weapons instead, Mikhail Podoliak has said Peacekeeping forces or soldiers from other countries being deployed to Ukraine is not a realistic prospect, Mikhail Podoliak, the top adviser to the country\u2019s leader Vladimir Zelensky, said on Friday. Podoliak made the statement in an interview with Polish radio station RMF just…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3121,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions\/3121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}