Kremlin accuses French president of wanting to “increase the level of direct involvement of France” in the conflict. In a video broadcast by a Russian journalist on the social network Telegram, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov accuses Emmanuel Macron of trying to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.

Peskov underlined the " contradictory " nature of the declarations made in Paris on this subject since Emmanuel Macron's first remarks on February 26, when the French president said " not to exclude " the sending of Western troops to Ukraine to the future.