The French Foreign Ministry said it had summoned the Russian ambassador to France, today, Friday, because of what the embassy had posted on Twitter earlier, and Paris considered it unacceptable.
Yesterday, Thursday, the Russian embassy in Paris published, on Twitter, a satirical drawing of a corpse lying on a table with the word “Europe” on it, and people representing the United States went and the European Union They stick needles in it.
One of the two pictures published by the Russian Embassy
The embassy also published another cartoon, showing Europeans kneeling in front of “Uncle Sam”, which symbolizes the United States.
And the Russian embassy in Paris returned and deleted the two controversial cartoons from its Twitter account.
“These publications are not acceptable,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “We made this clear to the Russian ambassador today… We try to keep an open channel of dialogue with Russia, and these actions are totally inappropriate.”
This comes while I’m tryingFrench President Emmanuel MacronYesterday, Thursday, the ambiguity remained over what France and its NATO partners consider “red lines” in Ukraine to cross, which would call for intervention, especially Russia’s use of chemical weapons, considering that “discretion is more effective.”
“I will be very careful in this regard,” the French president said in a press conference after an emergency NATO summit, because “whenever I have to define what the red lines are, I make sure that their effect is a deterrent and that overcoming them has repercussions.”
French President Emmanuel Macron at the European Summit
He continued, “This is how France’s words and the words of all allies are respected. This is what we did in April 2018 during Operation Hamilton,” referring to an air raid on Syria that France carried out in cooperation with the United States and Britain, shortly after Damascus used chemical weapons.
“I think strategic ambiguity and secrecy are more effective” when it comes to Ukraine, the French president said.
Macron reminded that NATO countries do not want to get involved in the war, considering that equipping Ukraine with fighters or tanks “is today a limit that no one wants to cross because it is clear that it will constitute involvement in the war.”