The tension continues to rise.
Emmanuel Macron denounced this Friday the “indignity” of recent virulent remarks by Russian leaders against France, and in particular the Vice-President of the Duma Pyotr Tolstoy, seeing it as a clear sign of “nervousness”.
“I think that their indignity is enough not to comment on them,” judged the French president in response to a question from a journalist in Brussels after a European Council, confiding his “astonishment at such nervousness and of such lack of nerve among Russian officials.”
💬 “You, the French, are provoking the Third World War”
In an exclusive interview, Pyotr Tolstoy, the vice-president of the Duma in Russia, warns France
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Mr. Tolstoy, interviewed by BFMTV, notably promised death to any French soldier coming to Ukrainian soil, or attacked the homosexuality of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal.
“We're going to kill everyone, don't worry”
In this interview, the Russian leader also attacked Emmanuel Macron and his famous outing where he did not exclude sending troops to Ukraine: “We don't care about his opinion, we don't care about its limits, we don't care about Macron, about what Macron says.
», had notably blurted out the vice-president of the Duma.
And to assure that Russia was going to “kill all the French soldiers who will come to Ukrainian soil, all of them”, adding that 147 French mercenaries in Ukraine have already been killed.
Information that cannot be verified at this time.
“We’re going to kill everyone, don’t worry,” he then repeated.