MOSCOW, November 25. /TASS/. The European elites have no unanimity over the idea of sending troops from their countries or at least private mercenaries to support Kiev, but some "hotheads" are pondering over this option, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said following speculations in the French newspaper Le Monde.

The daily reported that the European elites had resumed discussions on the idea of sending troops in the light of the possibility the United States’ future Donald Trump-led administration might curtail support for Kiev.

"You and I do not know to what extent these reports correspond to reality," the Kremlin spokesman said. "Earlier, of course, such ideas were heard from different European capitals, but various counterarguments were also voiced not in favor of this idea. "There is no unanimity among the Europeans on this score, but, of course, some hotheads appear," he added.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on February 26 that at a meeting in Paris that brought together representatives of about 20 Western countries the possibility of sending ground troops to Ukraine was raised. He remarked that the participants had not reached a consensus, but such a scenario should not be ruled out in the future. Peskov said afterwards that the arrival of foreign military contingents in Ukraine would be fraught with extremely negative consequences, including irreparable ones.