Russia threatens to attack French soldiers if they enter Ukraine. “If they appear in the conflict zone, they will become targets”

Russia warned France on Wednesday that if President Emmanuel Macron sends troops to Ukraine, then they will be seen as legitimate targets by the Russian military, Reuters reports.

President Macron caused controversy in February by saying he could not rule out the deployment of ground troops to Ukraine in the future. The French leader warned that if Russia wins in Ukraine, then Europe’s credibility will be reduced to zero. He reconfirmed this position in a recent interview given to The Economist magazine.

“It is known that Macron himself explains this rhetoric by the desire to create a kind of strategic ambiguity for Russia,” commented the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. “We have to disappoint him – for us the situation seems more than safe”, added Zaharova in a press briefing, according to News.ro

“If the French appear in the conflict zone, they will inevitably become targets for the Russian armed forces. It seems to me that Paris already has proof of this,” she said. Zakharova stated that Russia already sees an increasing number of French citizens among those killed in Ukraine.

Russia said on Monday it would practice deploying tactical nuclear weapons in a military exercise after what Moscow said were threats from France, Britain and the United States.

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