VIENNA, November 12. /TASS/. Western countries’ plans to deploy troops to Ukraine as part of the so-called Coalition of the Willing point to preparations for a military intervention, said Dmitry Polyansky, Russia’s permanent representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
"We have repeatedly made clear that deploying Western contingents on Ukrainian territory is unacceptable. It is hard to see preparations to send troops to Ukraine as part of the so-called Coalition of the Willing as anything other than preparations for an intervention and the military clash with us that would inevitably follow," Polyansky said at a regular meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council, according to a copy of his remarks obtained by TASS.
Polyansky noted that European countries are demonstrating their readiness for a military confrontation with Russia through statements by their politicians and through concrete steps to prepare for war. He cited, in particular, putting industry on a wartime footing and upgrading infrastructure to speed up the deployment of armed forces.