{"id":399623,"date":"2025-09-05T09:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399623\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:31:13","slug":"putin-warns-western-troops-in-ukraine-will-be-legitimate-targets-for-russia-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399623\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin warns Western troops in Ukraine will be \u2018legitimate targets\u2019 for Russia \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Putin was commenting on the readiness of the West’s so-called coalition of the willing to provide postwar security guarantees to Ukraine<\/a>, which could include the deployment of troops and air patrols to the country, as well securing maritime traffic in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n

Crucially, the precondition for that to happen is a ceasefire or peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, Putin repeated he doesn’t see the point<\/a> in meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “it will be almost impossible to agree with the Ukrainian side on key issues.”<\/p>\n

He also ruled out that unlikely meeting taking place in any city other than Moscow.<\/p>\n

“If someone really wants to meet with us, we are ready. The best place for this is the capital of the Russian Federation, the hero city of Moscow … We will definitely provide working conditions and safety,” said<\/a> Putin at the forum. Zelenskyy has already dismissed<\/a> Putin’s idea of meeting in Moscow.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin chief has been playing for time over meeting Zelenskyy as the White House attempts to set up a meeting with a view to ending the conflict. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Putin was commenting on the readiness of the West’s so-called coalition of the willing to provide postwar security…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2594,6178,473,2000,299,7058,12336,660,808,2597,54490,2821,332,7339,5549,811,657,333,2601,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-399623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-conflict","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european-defense","14":"tag-european-defense-policy","15":"tag-kremlin","16":"tag-maritime","17":"tag-military","18":"tag-multinational-defense-programs","19":"tag-nato","20":"tag-russia","21":"tag-russia-sanctions","22":"tag-safety","23":"tag-security","24":"tag-ukraine","25":"tag-vladimir-putin","26":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","27":"tag-war","28":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115150997677140459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}