Kremlin slams Macron, rejects Europe's Ukraine peacekeeping plan

Moscow says French leader pushing continent to war after he calls Russia a threat

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Effigies of French President Emmanuel Macron, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen set on fire in Donetsk, a Russia-controlled region of Ukraine late February. © Reuters

MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Russia ruled out European proposals to send peacekeeping forces to Ukraine and said on Thursday that French President Emmanuel Macron had threatened it by suggesting that Moscow was a grave menace to Europe.

French President Emmanuel Macron said in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday he plans next week to hold a meeting of army chiefs from European countries willing to send troops to Ukraine after any eventual peace deal with Russia.

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