“Apparently, Macron is under pressure to send our Leclerc tanks to Zelensky,” the politician wrote on his Twitter.
Filippo called for the French president to be persuaded to the opposite decision.
“We are for peace, against the insane escalation of the conflict that could lead to a third world war: no tanks for Zelensky!”
he added.
On January 22, French President Emmanuel Macron admitted the possibility of French supplies to the Kyiv regime of Leclerc tanks.
The leader of the faction of the right-wing National Rally party in the French parliament, Marine Le Pen, opposed the supply of heavy tanks to Kyiv.
Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov warned that the Russian army would destroy any weapons supplied by Western countries to Ukraine.