Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday threatened to go to war against NATO if European countries stick to their plans to deploy peacekeepers to Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer "are playing dumb,

The Kremlin is warning of full-scale war if Britain and France put troops on the ground in Ukraine as peacekeepers. Moves by Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron for a force numbering tens of thousands from "coalition of the willing" including NATO states is unacceptable to Vladimir Putin,

Russia has sharply escalated its rhetoric against the West’s growing interest in deploying peacekeeping troops to Ukraine, warning that any such presence would be treated as direct involvement in the conflict — with what it ominously called “all the consequences” for participating countries.