The Kremlin suggested Tuesday that Donald Trump lied when he said that Russia will accept European peacekeeping troops in Ukraine.
During a meeting at the White House with French President Emmanuel Macron on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Trump told reporters that he “asked” Vladimir Putin about peacekeepers in Ukraine as part of a deal to end the war and the Russian president said “he will accept it.”
However, in a media call on Tuesday Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov disputed Trump’s claim, telling reporters that “the Russian foreign minister has already said everything about it, I’ve got nothing to add,” NBC News reported.
Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that “the deployment of troops … [from] NATO countries, but under a foreign flag, under the flag of the European Union or under national flags … is, of course, unacceptable to us.”
Lavrov made the comments in a news conference after meeting with US officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in Saudi Arabia.
