Russia warns Western forces in Ukraine would be considered 'legitimate combat targets'

Russia connected Thursday warned that immoderate Western subject forces deployed to Ukraine nether a post-war information statement would beryllium considered "legitimate combat targets," sharply criticizing a recently signed Paris declaration outlining information guarantees for Kyiv.

In a connection posted connected the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Telegram channel, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the declaration, backed by Ukraine, the United States and respective European countries, was not aimed astatine bid but astatine further militarizing Ukraine and escalating the conflict.

She specifically objected to provisions calling for a multinational unit and continued subject enactment for Ukraine's equipped forces, informing that immoderate overseas troops, subject infrastructure oregon facilities connected Ukrainian territory would beryllium viewed by Moscow arsenic nonstop overseas intervention.

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Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova attends the yearly property league held by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov connected Jan. 14, 2025, successful Moscow. (Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)

"All specified units and facilities volition beryllium considered arsenic morganatic combat targets of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation," Zakharova said.

"These warnings person been voiced much than erstwhile astatine the highest level and stay relevant."

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said connected Monday the U.K. and France signed a declaration of intent to deploy forces to Ukraine successful the lawsuit of a bid deal, including establishing subject hubs and facilities to store weapons and instrumentality aft a ceasefire.

A worker fires a third-generation Javelin man-portable anti-tank rocket strategy during a nonrecreational grooming league connected Jan. 7, 2026, successful Ukraine. (Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"It paves the mode for the ineligible model nether which British, French and spouse forces could run connected Ukrainian ungraded – securing Ukraine’s skies and seas – and regenerating Ukraine’s equipped forces for the future," Starmer told reporters astatine a property league aft the Coalition of the Willing gathering successful Paris.

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"We besides person agreed [on] important further steps. First, that we volition enactment successful U.S.-led monitoring and verification of immoderate ceasefire. Second, we volition enactment the semipermanent proviso of armaments for Ukraine’s defence. And third, we volition enactment towards binding commitments to enactment Ukraine successful the lawsuit of a aboriginal equipped onslaught by Russia," helium added.

Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, France’s President Emmanuel Macron, Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. businessman Jared Kushner talk astatine a property league aft signing a declaration astatine the Coalition of the Willing acme connected Jan. 6, 2026, successful Paris. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via Reuters)

U.S. peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff said connected X that negotiators made important advancement connected a bilateral information warrant model and a prosperity program for Ukraine, calling durable information guarantees indispensable to a lasting peace.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy connected Thursday said the papers connected information guarantees for Ukraine is fundamentally "ready for finalization astatine the highest level with the President of the United States."

"Complex issues from the basal model for ending the warfare were besides addressed, and the Ukrainian broadside presented imaginable options for finalizing this document," helium added. "We recognize that the American broadside volition prosecute with Russia, and we expect feedback connected whether the aggressor is genuinely consenting to extremity the war."