{"id":4406,"date":"2026-09-12T16:38:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=4406"},"modified":"2026-09-12T16:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:38:22","slug":"as-europe-weighs-a-ukraine-peacekeeping-force-putin-warns-sending-troops-means-a-war-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=4406","title":{"rendered":"As Europe weighs a Ukraine peacekeeping force, Putin warns sending troops &#8216;means a war with Russia&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2293645163-e1789226799408.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Russian strikes killed five civilians and wounded dozens in Ukraine, local officials said Saturday, after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that sending European troops into Ukraine would amount to direct conflict with Russia.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine is under mounting pressure from Russia\u2019s intensifying\u00a0air campaign\u00a0that uses\u00a0ballistic missiles\u00a0and\u00a0jet-powered drones\u00a0to pierce defenses. Moscow\u2019s attacks have targeted Ukraine\u2019s\u00a0power grid\u00a0ahead of winter in what officials say is meant to demoralize civilians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two people were killed and one wounded when Russian drones struck a residential area overnight in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, regional head Ivan Fedorov said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One person died and three others were wounded in strikes on Kryvyi Rih, according to local officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Black Sea port of Odesa and the surrounding area, 35 people were wounded overnight in what regional head Oleh Kiper called a \u201cmassive attack.\u201d Among the buildings hit was a residential high-rise, whose upper floors were completely destroyed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later on Saturday, two people were killed in a Russian attack on a grocery store in Ukraine\u2019s Zhytomyr region, local officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces struck two chemical industry facilities in Russia, one in Samara and one in Perm. The governors of the regions did not immediately comment, but Russian independent online news outlet Astra reported drone attacks on chemical plants in both regions.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Putin warns against sending European troops to Ukraine<\/h4>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin, speaking to reporters at a summit of the\u00a0BRICS group of emerging economies\u00a0in India on Friday, said that if European governments send troops into Ukraine, it will mean \u201ca war with Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNow they\u2019re talking about how they\u2019re considering sending troops into Ukraine. That means a war with Russia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some\u00a0European leaders have pledged\u00a0their commitment to a\u00a0potential peacekeeping force,\u00a0a prospect that Moscow has repeatedly described as unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin also denied Russia posed any threat to Europe, saying \u201cthere is no such threat and never has been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe do not threaten, nor do we intend to threaten, European countries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk\u00a0said Thursday that two incidents along Ukraine\u2019s borders with Poland and Moldova this week were a preview of potential intensified Russian provocations at Ukraine\u2019s border crossing points with Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two people died when\u00a0Russian drones hit the Starokozache bordercrossing between Ukraine and Moldova on Tuesday night, while a \u201cdirect threat\u201d to a Polish-Ukrainian crossing point on Wednesday night was only avoided thanks to cooperation between Warsaw and Kyiv, he said.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Zelenskyy offers to meet Putin at G20<\/h4>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Zelenskyy told Deutsche Welle, in an interview published Saturday, that he would meet Putin if both leaders were invited to the Group of 20 summit of rich and developing nations in December in Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin\u2019s foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said Saturday that the possibility of Putin attending the summit had not yet been discussed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Kremlin in the past has said that Zelenskyy can come to Moscow if he wants a meeting with Putin, a proposal Kyiv has rejected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf he really wants to meet with Putin, Putin has already said that he could fly to Moscow,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov affirmed Saturday that Russia is \u201cready for negotiations,\u201d but that the so-called \u201cspecial military operation,\u201d as Moscow refers to its war in Ukraine, \u201cwill not be suspended during this period of negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Europe #weighs #Ukraine #peacekeeping #force #Putin #warns #sending #troops #means #war #Russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian strikes killed five ci&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1939,1650,3459,7385,6028,1503,6390,1474,1432,1425,356,276,781],"class_list":["post-4406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-europe","tag-force","tag-means","tag-peacekeeping","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-sending","tag-troops","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-invasion","tag-war","tag-warns","tag-weighs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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