Since Emmanuel Macron's comments on the potential sending of troops to Ukraine, threats have increased against France. A close friend of Vladimir Putin even mentions calculations made for a nuclear strike on Paris.
Pyotr Tolstoy, vice-president of the Duma, equivalent to the National Assembly, was very threatening towards France during an interview with BFMTV. His speech rose to a crescendo, going so far as to affirm that Russia was considering the possibility of a nuclear strike on Paris. “We are calculating,” he revealed, in a response that was nonetheless not very confident. He assures that it would only take “a little more than two minutes” to hit the capital with a projectile from Russia. Pyotr Tolstoy justified himself by explaining that he prioritized the security of his country, "the NATO countries, including France, placing missiles around Russian borders".
He also reacted to Emmanuel Macron's comments on the possible sending of French troops to Ukraine, assuring that he would not set "any limits" in support for kyiv. “We are going to kill all the French soldiers who come to Ukrainian soil,” he declared. 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 Pyotr Tolstoy. This Tuesday, the Russian news agency Rass also relayed the words of the head of the Russian foreign intelligence service, Serguey 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.
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, 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.
Furthermore, he expressed his real disdain towards the French president: "We don't care about Macron, what he says, his limits," said this close friend of Vladimir Putin.
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.
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."
