Nuclear doctrine of the Russian Federation – the French Foreign Ministry considered that Putin was bluffing – UNIAN
They noted that they would not allow themselves to be intimidated by the Kremlin.
France was not afraid of the changes in the nuclear doctrine of the Russian Federation, which Putin announced the day before. This was stated by the country's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot.
“This is just rhetoric. We will not allow ourselves to be intimidated by these threats,” the minister commented on Cnews. He noted that Putin has been using nuclear blackmail “for the last two and a half years to harass” NATO countries. According to him, the change in the Russian nuclear doctrine also did not come as a surprise, because it was announced.
Barrot repeated French President Emmanuel Macron's call for Putin to return “to common sense.”
Barro added that approval of attacks by Western long-range missiles on the Russian Federation cannot be perceived as NATO aggression, since the Kremlin itself…
