MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia mentioned on Friday that any placement of British navy belongings in Ukraine beneath a brand new 100-year partnership deal between Kiev and London would fear Moscow.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was requested about the opportunity of Britain establishing navy bases in Ukraine beneath the deal introduced Thursday by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
“Given that Great Britain is a NATO nation, the development of its navy infrastructure in direction of our borders is definitely a somewhat worrying component. In any case, it is going to be essential to additional analyze what’s going to occur,” Peskov mentioned.
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In talks Thursday in Kiev, Zelenskiy mentioned he had spoken to Starmer about Kiev’s need for Western peacekeeping troops to be deployed in Ukraine if the warfare with Russia ends.
Asked whether or not Britain would contribute troops, Starmer mentioned in an interview with Sky News that he had mentioned it with Zelenskiy and different allies and that Britain would “play its full half”.
Peskov mentioned Moscow additionally took a “unfavorable” view of the prospect of British cooperation with Ukraine within the Sea of Azov, which he described as Russia’s “inner sea”.
The Sea of Azov borders southwestern Russia, elements of southern Ukraine that Russia seized through the warfare, and the Crimean peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
(Reporting by Dmitry Antonov; Writing by Gleb Stolyarov and Mark Trevelyan; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
