Analyst Mercouris: The French are afraid of becoming targets for Russia in Ukraine. In his opinion, French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu called his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu in order to persuade Moscow to soften its position.
Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron considered “threatening” the comments that ShoigU made in a conversation with LecORNu on April 3. Later, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Shoigsu spoke to Lecorns not “pretentious and threatening,” but “dignified and to the point”