A Kremlin propagandist has warned of dire consequences should President-elect Donald Trump‘s reported suggestion that European troops monitor a ceasefire in Ukraine come to pass.
Vladimir Solovyov was referring to reports Trump had discussed with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron a “strong, well-armed Ukraine” when hostilities cease.
Citing unnamed officials, The Wall Street Journal reported the president-elect had not ruled out U.S. support but rejected any American troop involvement in keeping the peace. The newspaper reported Trump as saying European personnel should take the lead in protecting Ukraine.
Newsweek has contacted the Trump team for comment.
TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov in Saint Petersburg on June 6, 2024. On December 15, 2024, he reacted to reports that President-elect Donald Trump wants European troops to keep the peace in Ukraine.
TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov in Saint Petersburg on June 6, 2024. On December 15, 2024, he reacted to reports that President-elect Donald Trump wants European troops to keep the peace in Ukraine.
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Solovyov referred to this during a monologue on his show on the Russia 1 channel. He started by saying how the frontline in the Donbas region he said he had just visited jarred with normal daily life in Moscow.
He accused the President Joe Biden‘s administration of stepping up its delivery of weapons to Ukraine such as HIMARS, “like it’s the last days of Pompei” ahead of another likely Ukrainian offensive.
Describing how he would not want a repeat of the “tragedy” of the incursion into the Kursk region, Solovyov said it was “an incredibly tense situation and no one knows where it will lead to.”
Biden has dropped restrictions on Ukraine using U.S. weapons to strike inside Russia. Regarding long-range attacks, Solovyov said, “Trump says it’s stupid, it shouldn’t be done.”
Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov reacted to Trump’s idea of deploying European peacekeepers to monitor a potential ceasefire in Ukraine by bluntly threatening, “We will kill all of you.”https://t.co/iZnYMNQeHF
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) December 15, 2024
Trump told Time he disagreed “very vehemently with sending missiles hundreds of miles into Russia,” and warned of the danger of escalation in an article coinciding with the magazine naming him the Person of the Year for 2024.
During his monologue on Sunday night, Solovyov said, “at the same time, in all seriousness, you (Trump) discuss how you’ll bring in European troops not as NATO so that NATO is not responsible.”
“I should quote the 19th-century classics to you translated into modern-day language uttered by a descendent of a great literary tradition, State Duma deputy Pyotr Tolstoy, ‘we will kill all of you,'” Solovyov said, referring to the great-great grandson of novelist Leo Tolstoy.
“This war is not two or three years old, this war between Russia and Europe has been ongoing for centuries,” said Solovyov in the clip posted on X (formerly Twitter) by journalist and Russia watcher Julia Davis.
“Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov reacted to Trump’s idea of deploying European peacekeepers to monitor a potential ceasefire in Ukraine by bluntly threatening, ‘We will kill all of you,'” posted Davis to the clip.