Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has voiced strong opposition to the deployment of Western peacekeeping troops in Ukraine as part of any potential settlement to resolve the nearly three-year conflict.

Discussions about stationing foreign troops in Ukraine to enforce a peace deal have been gaining traction in Western capitals. French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk recently addressed the matter during a meeting in Warsaw.

In an interview published Monday by the Russian Foreign Ministry, Lavrov told the state-run TASS news agency that Moscow rejects these proposals, as well as other ideas floated by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

"Naturally, we are dissatisfied with the proposals voiced by representatives of the president-elect to delay Ukraine’s NATO membership for 20 years and to deploy a peacekeeping contingent of ‘British and European forces’ to Ukraine," Lavrov said.

The Kremlin has previously maintained that it is "too early to talk about peacekeepers."

President-elect Trump, set to take office in three weeks, has claimed he could broker a peace deal within 24 hours and suggested leveraging Washington’s substantial financial and military support to Kyiv. While he has yet to present a concrete plan, members of his team have floated various ideas, including deploying European troops to monitor a ceasefire along the 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line and delaying Ukraine's NATO aspirations.

Despite these discussions, both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have ruled out direct talks with each other. The gap between Moscow and Kyiv's positions on acceptable terms for a peace deal remains vast.

Putin has insisted that Ukraine withdraw its forces from four regions — Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia — which Moscow claims to have annexed. Meanwhile, Kyiv has repeatedly rejected any territorial concessions to Russia in exchange for peace.

The path to a potential settlement remains fraught with challenges, as neither side appears willing to compromise on its core demands.