The Kremlin’s spokesman says recent statements by France’s president and Britain’s foreign secretary about the war in Ukraine will deepen international tension.
Recent statements by France’s president and Britain’s foreign secretary about the war in Ukraine are «dangerous» and will deepen international tension around the conflict, the Kremlin’s spokesman said Friday.
French President Emmanuel Macron, in an interview published Thursday, repeated an earlier comment that he doesn’t exclude sending troops to Ukraine. U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron, meanwhile, said during a visit to Kyiv the same day that Ukraine will be able to use British long-range weapons to strike targets inside Russia — a possibility that some other NATO countries providing weapons have balked at.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov branded Macron’s comment «a very important and very dangerous statement.» Remarks by Macron about possible direct French engagement in the conflict represent a «very dangerous trend,» he said.
Cameron’s statement about Ukraine’s right to use British weapons provided to strike facilities inside Russia is «another very dangerous statement,» Peskov told reporters.
«This is a direct escalation of tensions around the Ukrainian conflict, which potentially may threaten European security, the entire European security architecture,» Peskov said.
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 significantly heightened tension between the Kremlin and NATO countries.
