MOSCOW, January 8. /TASS/. Moscow warns that the deployment of Western military units, military facilities, and other infrastructure in Ukraine will be viewed as an intervention that poses a direct threat to security, and that they will become legitimate targets for the Russian Armed Forces, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
"As clarified by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, who signed the corresponding trilateral statement along with [Vladimir] Zelensky, London and Paris plan to establish their own military bases in Ukraine post-ceasefire and build weapon and military equipment storage facilities," she said.
"The Russian Foreign Ministry warns that the deployment of military units and the setting-up of military facilities, storages and other Western infrastructure on Ukrainian territory will be qualified as foreign intervention that directly threatens the security of Russia and other European countries. All such units and facilities will be considered as legitimate military targets for the Russian Armed Forces. Warnings to this effect have been repeatedly made at the highest level and remain relevant," Zakharova noted.
