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After Macron publicly considered sending NATO soldiers to Ukraine, Russia's ex-president attacked with wild insults.
Paris/Moscow – Former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev is known for publicly mocking his political opponents.
French President Emmanuel Macron apparently provided him with a template for a new swipe.
At a press conference in Paris, Macron did not rule out sending ground troops to Kiev for support in the future.
“Firstly, he probably had urine in his head and secondly, he was incontinent in his speech,” Medvedev insulted the president on his Telegram channel on Tuesday.
Russia's former president criticized Macron's claim that Europe needed a Ukrainian victory over Russia for its security and should therefore consider sending long-range missiles and ground troops.
“Combined with his recent desire to share France’s nuclear arsenal with all willing Europeans, Macron’s speech incontinence appears to have become a persistent and painful problem,” he teased.
Western ground troops in Ukraine?
Russia's former president Medvedev countered sharply
Most recently, Medvedev recommended that the French president change his diet to combat his “incontinence”.
“Oysters and champagne are a good thing, but he's not a boy anymore.
Verbal bedwetting at his age is dangerous,” writes Putin’s close ally, concluding with: “People don’t like it.
The smell, you know.”
Russia's former president Dmitri Medvedev during the Russian security conference in early February.
© Mikhail Metzel/imago
After a meeting of more than 20 heads of state and government on Monday evening (February 26) in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron mentioned the use of Western ground troops as a possible option for the first time since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
“Nothing can be excluded in the dynamic.
We will do whatever is necessary to ensure that Russia does not win this war,” he told reporters after the meeting.
It didn't take long before Macron was already receiving strong opposition from Western allies - especially from Germany.
France is bringing the sending of ground troops to Ukraine to the table - Germany is strictly against it
Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks out clearly against a possible deployment of ground troops to Ukraine.
According to Scholz, at the political meeting that preceded the press conference, it was agreed for the future that “there will be no ground troops, no soldiers on Ukrainian soil that will be sent there by European states or NATO states.” he said on Tuesday.
From Scholz's point of view, this would mean direct participation in the war against Russia.
In Paris things are seen differently.
French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné said on Tuesday in the National Assembly that when sending soldiers he was primarily thinking about cyber defense, the production of weapons in Ukraine and demining.
“Some of these actions may require a presence on Ukrainian territory without reaching the belligerent threshold,” Séjourné said.
(nz/dpa)