BERLIN, December 23. /TASS/. Russia has made it quite clear to Berlin that any hostile action will not go unanswered – this concerns both possible deliveries of Taurus cruise missiles to Kiev and plans to host US medium- and shorter-range missiles in Germany, Russian Ambassador Sergei Nechayev has told TASS. in an interview.
He pointed out that “even the most zealous Russophobes recognize that there is no ‘Wunderwaffe’ (miracle weapon – TASS), and that the Taurus missiles will not change the situation on the battlefield.” He recalled that Chancellor Olaf Scholz had rejected the idea of supplying these combat systems to the regime in Kiev, saying such a step would mean Germany’s direct involvement in the conflict.
“The Social Democrats are discussing the possibility of including this ban in the new coalition agreement, if they happen to participate in its coordination,” Nechaev noted. However, he noted that this proposal “has many opponents” who, on the contrary, would welcome Taurus supplies to Kiev.
“We do not get involved in this internal German debate. We do not intervene in the pre-election discussions, but we emphasize that any aggressive action by Berlin towards Russia will not go unanswered,” Nechayev said. “This concerns both the potential use of Taurus and the plans for stationing American medium- and short-range missiles on German territory. I am confident that the Germans understand this,” he continued.
Commenting on remarks by some Western officials about the deployment of “peacekeepers” in Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire, Nechayev recalled that Russian leaders had consistently emphasized that the presence of foreign troops there, especially NATO, was ‘unbearable and off the table’.
“The growing speculation in some European capitals about sending ‘peacekeepers’ and ‘freezing’ the conflict, in my opinion, reflects the realization of clear successes of the Russian armed forces on the front line and the inexorably deteriorating situation of the Zelensky regime. the Russian ambassador emphasized.
Discussion about ‘peacekeepers’
Earlier, during a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, according to a number of media outlets, did not rule out the possibility of sending peacekeeping troops from Germany to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire . If we are to believe her, in addition to security guarantees in the form of NATO membership, an international presence to enforce the ceasefire could be considered. She added that Germany will “support with all its might” any action aimed at achieving peace.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on February 26 that a meeting of representatives of about 20 Western countries in Paris discussed the possibility of sending ground troops to Ukraine. Macron stated that the participants did not reach a consensus, but that such a scenario could materialize in the future. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that the deployment of foreign military personnel in Ukraine would have extremely negative and potentially irreversible consequences.
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitriy Peskov said the arrival of foreign military contingents in Ukraine would be fraught with extremely negative, even irreparable, consequences.
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