His words created a real uproar.
A few weeks after Emmanuel Macron announced “not to rule out” sending troops to Ukraine, Russia is warning.
The Kremlin estimated this Thursday that President Emmanuel Macron was increasing France's "involvement" in the conflict in Ukraine since his comments did not rule out sending Western troops there, a possibility rejected by most of his allies. .
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Sending Western troops to Ukraine: Macron’s words provoke reactions
“Mr Macron is convinced of his policy of wanting to inflict a strategic defeat on our country and he continues to increase the level of direct involvement of France” in the conflict in Ukraine, the Kremlin spokesperson said, Dmitri Peskov, in a video broadcast on Telegram by a Russian journalist.
“Don’t be a coward”
Mr. Peskov nevertheless underlined the “contradictory” nature of the statements 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. in the future.
This first declaration aroused agitation among France's allies within NATO, most of whom immediately rejected such a possibility.
Despite the controversy, Emmanuel Macron then assured that all his words were “weighted” and “measured”, while refusing any “logic of escalation” with Moscow.
This Tuesday, on a visit to Prague, he called on Ukraine's allies to "not be cowardly" in the face of a Russia that had "become unstoppable" and this Thursday, while receiving French party leaders to clarify his positions, he assured that Paris' support for kyiv had "no limits" or "red lines".