Peskov: Macron keeps increasing France's involvement in Ukraine conflict

MOSCOW. March 7 (Interfax) - French President Emmanuel Macron continues to increase the level of his country's involvement in the conflict in Ukraine, and this definitely does not meet the interests of the French people, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.

"Mr. Macron is confident of his line aimed at inflicting a strategic defeat on our country. He is continuing to increase the level of France's immediate involvement in this war. From our standpoint, this absolutely does not meet the interests of the French people," Peskov said in an interview for journalist Pavel Zarubin's TV show Moscow. Kremlin. Putin, an excerpt of which he published on his Telegram channel.

"A stream of very contradictory statements" has been heard from Paris over the past few days, Peskov said.

"On the one hand, Mr. Macron is beginning to discuss the possibility of sending military contingents into the Ukraine war. On the other hand, the French foreign minister categorically denies the possibility of sending such contingents," Peskov said.

"A very active discussion is ongoing in France and in Europe," he said.