“We do not have the right to escalate”: Sébastien Lecornu responds to Vladimir Putin’s speech. “The military capabilities of the (Russian) armed forces have been multiplied.
They are advancing confidently in several directions,” declared Vladimir Putin on Thursday. In his speech to the Nation, the Russian President judged that Western threats created a "real" risk of nuclear conflict, in response to Emmanuel Macron's speech, at the start of the week, the sending troops to Ukraine.