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"MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia takes a negative view of European proposals on security guarantees for Ukraine and will not accept any presence of NATO troops on its neighbour's territory, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov praised U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to end the war in Ukraine as "very important" however, and said Moscow hoped they would continue.
As part of a potential peace settlement, Ukraine's European allies are working to put together a set of guarantees for Ukraine that would protect it from a possible future attack by Russia. But Peskov said a European troop deployment in Ukraine would mean a NATO presence there, which he said was something Russia had aimed to prevent from the start.
"In fact, at the very beginning, it was the advancement of NATO military infrastructure and the infiltration of this military infrastructure into Ukraine that could probably be named among the root causes of the conflict situation that arose," he said. "So we have a negative attitude towards these discussions.""
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How long before Trump and Putin suggest that North Korea provide the "security guarantee?"
As part of a potential peace settlement, Ukraine's European allies are working to put together a set of guarantees for Ukraine that would protect it from a possible future attack by Russia. But Peskov said a European troop deployment in Ukraine would mean a NATO presence there, which he said was something Russia had aimed to prevent from the start.
"In fact, at the very beginning, it was the advancement of NATO military infrastructure and the infiltration of this military infrastructure into Ukraine that could probably be named among the root causes of the conflict situation that arose," he said. "So we have a negative attitude towards these discussions.""
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How long before Trump and Putin suggest that North Korea provide the "security guarantee?"