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Unsurprisingly, Moscow reacted by denouncing the serious consequences of a possible sending of Western troops on the ground in Ukraine, as Emmanuel Macron mentioned on Monday evening, while pointing out the lack of consensus among NATO members on this proposition.
It is
“absolutely not in the interests of these countries”
to send soldiers to Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
According to him, the simple fact of evoking this possibility constitutes
“a very important new element”
in the conflict.
Indeed, he underlined when answering a question on the risk of a direct conflict between the Atlantic Alliance and Russia
, “in this case, we should not speak of probability, but of inevitability”
.
The Russian response to Emmanuel Macron's remarks took a most virulent turn in the mouth of the spokesperson for diplomacy, Maria Zakharova, exhuming the sinister memory of the French SS of the Charlemagne division present in Berlin in…
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