Russia again rejected the idea that foreign troops were stationed in Ukraine. This is when European leaders met Ukrainian President Volodyymyr Zenskyy and held a joint call with President Donald Trump.
Thursday spokesperson Maria Zakharova of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that every plan to be used for foreign military staff in Ukraine would be “unacceptable” for Moscow, Reuters reported.
“Russia is not going to discuss a foreign intervention in Ukraine in which form or classification that is fundamentally unacceptable and undermines any safety,” said Zakharova reporters, according to Reuters.
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Russia made it clear that it would not accept that foreign troops in Ukraine are used when world leaders work to end the brutal war between the two nations. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool/Reuters)
The statement was a response to comments from President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen about plans to send European troops to Ukraine.
Russia is not only in rejection of Von der Leyen’s comments, because Germany has also expressed doubts about the proposal. The German Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius said reporters that there are “things that you will not discuss before you sit at the negotiating table with many parties who have a say.”
President Donald Trump met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy in the White House on August 18, 2025 in Washington, DC (Getty Images)
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While the call took place on Thursday morning, the White House did not release a public explanation about what was discussed or that any progress has been made in the end of the war. However, Zenskyy seemed to think that it went well when he thanked Trump in a post about the meeting at X.
“I would like to give President Trump special thanks for all his efforts to end this war and for the willingness of America to offer Ukraine support, on his part,” ” Zenskyy wrote.
The Ukrainian president said that in the meeting, including the special envoy Steve Witkoff, the world leaders discussed how each country would be ready to contribute to the security of KYIV.
Prime Minister Bart de Wever of Belgium, chairman of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, Prime Minister Donald Tusk van Polen, president of Finland Alexander Stubb, the Ukrainian president Volodyymyr Zenskyyy and French President Emmanuel Macron met in Paris in Paris in Paris 2055. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via Reuters)
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“We share the same view that Russia is doing everything possible to drag the negotiation process away and to extend the war. Support for Ukraine must be increased and the pressure on Russia must be intensified,” said Zenskyy.
World leaders have urged the war in Russia-Ukraine, which has been raging for more than three years since the Moscow invasion in February 2022.
