Speaking a day after his speech in which the French president called Russia a threat to Europe and developed the idea of putting other European countries under the nuclear umbrella, other European countries said today (6/3) that some people have forgotten what happened to Napoleon.
The Russian president referred to the French emperor who crossed Russia with his army and arrived in Moscow in 1812, but was then forced to retreat because of the relentless winter after suffering huge losses.
‘We need nothing else but we will not retreat’
“There are still people who want to go back to Napoleon’s era, forgetting how it is over,” Putin said in a commentary on television, without mentioning Macron.
The Russian president also said that Russia should choose a peace in Ukraine, which would ensure the security of Russia and its substantive development in the long run.
Peace that will suit us
“We have to choose a peace that will suit us and secure peace for our country in the long run,” Putin said, addressing women who lost their relatives in the war.
Putin, asked by a mother of a fallen soldier if Russia would retreat, said he did not intend to do so. “We don’t need anything else, but we will not retreat,” Putin said.
Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry, which earlier criticized the proposal for European peacekeeping power in Ukraine and the ceasefire for a month, returned.
In particular, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zaharova told reporters that the Kremlin was rejecting the possibility of temporary interruption of battles. “They need fixed agreements for a final settlement. Without it, all kinds of cease is unacceptable, ”he notes.
Notes of nuclear blackmail
At noon, Russia accused Macron of launching threats against her in a speech, which she said contained “notes of nuclear blackmail”.
In yesterday’s profession to the nation, Macron said that Russia is a threat to Europe, Paris may discuss the expansion of its nuclear umbrella for allies and that it will convene a meeting of the leaders of the General Staff of the European Countries who are eager to send a willingness to send.
“Notes of nuclear blackmail were clearly heard in Emmanuel Macron’s speech. Paris’s ambitions to become the nuclear “patron” of all Europe have been revealed by offering its own “nuclear umbrella” that will almost replace the American. Needless to say, this will not lead to the security of either France itself or its allies itself, “the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
In the morning, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Macron’s nuclear rhetoric is a threat to Russia.
