Since Emmanuel Macron’s comments on the potential sending of troops to Ukraine, threats have increased against France, even at the highest level of the Russian state.
France is increasingly asserting its firmness towards Russia. This Wednesday, during his speech at the annual dinner of the Coordinating Council of Armenian Organizations in France, Gabriel Attal “assumed” to toughen his tone against Vladimir Putin, as reported BFMTV. Emmanuel Macron had, in fact, raised the idea of a possible sending of troops to Ukraine, ensuring that he would not set “any limits” in support for kyiv.
If Vladimir Putin had noted the president’s comments on television but without really responding to them, another politician was much more direct. Piotr Tolstoy, vice-president of the Duma, the Russian equivalent of the National Assembly, initially assured that he had little importance for the French president’s remarks at the microphone of BFMTV : “We don’t care about Macron, what he says, his limits,” said this person close to Vladimir Putin.
He then appeared much more threatening: “We are going to kill all the French soldiers who come to Ukrainian soil.” The message is very clear. “The idea of sending French soldiers to Ukraine will end with coffins covered by the tricolor flag at Orly,” added Piotr Tolstoy. This Tuesday, the Russian press agency Rass also relayed the words of the head of the Russian foreign intelligence service, Sergey Naryshkin, affirming that France was on the verge of sending 2,000 soldiers to Ukraine. The French Ministry of the Armed Forces quickly denied this.
Emmanuel Macron insulted
Pyotr Tolstoy even accuses France of being on the verge of starting a Third World War: “You French, who want to come with the soldiers to Odessa, you are provoking the Third World War.” In any case, the parliamentarian says he is determined: “For us, it is an existential question. We are not going to stop, we are not going to withdraw the troops,” insisted the vice-president of the Duma.
The French president had already been insulted by Dimitri Medvedev, the former Russian president and current vice-president of the Russian Security Council, regarding his potential visit to Ukraine. He called him a “zoological coward” on X.
Macron preparing to go to kyiv? But he’s a zoological coward!
Anyway: I recommend to his office to take several pairs of boxer shorts! It will smell very strong…
PS: I wrote this this morning and didn’t have time to publish it! And in the evening he was— Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) March 11, 2024
A few days earlier, it was a host from the Russia 1 television channel, Vladimir Soloviev, who took the French president to task, calling him a “phenomenal moron” and even a “Nazi bastard”. He also threatened France: “You want to attack Russia? So choose a French city that you want to wipe off the map.”