Marine Le Pen accused Emmanuel Macron of “posing an existential risk” to the French by evoking the hypothesis of sending Western troops to Ukraine. “There is reason to wonder if Vladimir Putin's troops are not already in our country,” replied Prime Minister Gabriel Attal.
These accusations of proximity to Russian power are frequent for the far-right party, which regularly denounces a “cabal” against it. The RN has since claimed to have fully repaid this loan, and above all assures that it has never been indebted to Russia.