President Macron caused controversy in February when he said he could not rule out the deployment of ground troops to Ukraine in the future. The French leader echoed this idea in an interview given on May 2 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”, Zaharova added.
“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 evidence of this,” she said.
Zakharova also said that Russia is already seeing a growing number of French citizens among those killed in Ukraine.
Warning for NATO as well
The message of the spokeswoman of Russian diplomacy was doubled by the statement of the spokesman of the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, who said on Wednesday that sending NATO troops to Ukraine would be extremely dangerous, reports Reuters.
“The regime in Kiev is quite unpredictable,” the Kremlin spokesman said when asked about a petition posted on the Ukrainian president’s website that says Ukraine should ask the United States, Britain and other countries to send troops to help her repel the Russian invasion.
“We have repeatedly said that the direct intervention on the front, in this conflict, by the military of NATO countries poses a potentially enormous danger, so we consider it an extremely provocative proposal, nothing less, and of course we are watching this very carefully Peskov said.
It was unclear whether the petition would garner the necessary number of votes – 25,000 – to require President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to respond, either approving it or rejecting it. As of Wednesday morning, the petition had 1,594 votes.
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