Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán warned yesterday that EU leaders are actively discussing the possibility of sending “some kind of peacekeeping force” to Ukraine. He warned: “If this continues, the danger of a world war is not a literary exaggeration.”
The Russian response came fast and hard. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “If we are talking about some kind of serious negotiations, then this is a potentially extremely dangerous discussion. In world practice, such forces, as a rule, are used only with the consent of both parties. In this case, it is potentially a very dangerous topic,” Peskov told journalists.
The Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev was harsher still, according to TASS. “It is obvious that such ‘peacekeepers’ are our unvarnished enemies, wolves in sheep’s clothing. They would be a legitimate target for our armed forces should they be deployed at the frontlines, without Russia’s consent, with weapons in hand and presenting a direct threat to us,” Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel. Describing such peacekeepers as “soldiers of the enemy,” Medvedev wrote: “They will die in the course of combat.… Is Europe prepared for a long line of coffins holding its ‘peacekeepers’?”
