The Russian Foreign Ministry says Moscow would view any French soldiers deployed in Ukraine as legitimate targets.
Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the warning was in response to renewed comments from French President Emmanuel Macron raising the possibility. He has said he cannot rule out the deployment of ground troops in Ukraine in the future.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry says it has already seen an increasing number of French citizens among battlefield fatalities on the Ukrainian side.
The Kremlin also said it had no comment on Ukrainian assertions that Kyiv caught Russian agents plotting the assassination of president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, but said that it was hardly likely to be accurate information.
Ukraine’s state security service said on Tuesday it caught two agents for Russia who planned to kill Zelenskiy and other top officials as “a gift” for Russian president Vladimir Putin as he was sworn in for a new term.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he had no comment on the assertion but added that was unlikely to be accurate information.
