Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that Ukrainian troops remaining in the Kursk region of Russia will be ruthlessly destroyed if they continue to fight.

A Russian service member walks past destroyed buildings in the town of Sudzha, which was recently retaken by Russia's armed forces in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in the Kursk region, Russia,

He added that “militaries” are meeting March 20 “in the United Kingdom to put strong and robust plans in place to swing in behind a peace deal and guarantee Ukraine’s future security. So far about 24 leaders are involved,

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,