discuss the rest of the relationship between moscow and paris live with our ambassador to france alexei mishkov contact. alexey yurievich, hello. hello. after the terrorist attack in crocus. france, according to macron, offered russia some enhanced collaboration. what do you mean by this and how do you generally assess paris’s response to the tragedy? well, in continuation of what was said about the minute of silence at the football match, indeed the french, ordinary people, responded very sincerely to this tragedy, in the book of condolences... in our official book of condolences alone, there are already more than a thousand signatures bearing flowers uh even the national assembly also held a minute of silence uh the diplomatic corps also actively responded - they came to me uh ambassadors of the cis countries to jointly express condolences. as for official paris. then he, as they say, is in the western trend, they immediately blamed isis for everything , as for macron’s famous statement, but he likes to make loud statements, well, wait and see, in france itself, after the terrorist attack in

the russian ambassador in paris, alexey mishkov, spoke about this and more in an interview with our channelich, hello, thank you for taking the time. of course, on this this week, the french authorities caused a certain furore in the information space, but can we say that this furor was somehow constructive or not, huh? but we will discuss this now and your opinion here is very interesting, but nevertheless, i mean the sending of nato troops to ukraine, macron spoke about this, and of course, then there were massive comments from colleagues from other countries, they disown all this , why do you think macron took such belligerent rhetoric right now and was just getting ready to go on a campaign. well first in all, i would say that this did not cause a furor, a stupor, because, of course, in french public opinion, as i understand it, in the public opinion of most european countries, no one really understood macron’s statement, they are asking exactly the same question that you asked me why, why and right now, well, versions. as always, there are a lot, well, the main version is that macron d

now not ready for escalation, the russian ambassador in paris stated this on our tv channel, alexei mishkovcomment. old words of the president of the fifth republic about the possible dispatch of nato troops to ukraine. what kind of deployment of nato troops can we talk about? according to an express public opinion poll, 75% of the french are categorically against sending french armed forces to ukraine. although, as we know, the french are there, they are fighting there, and not so long ago even the french ambassador was called to the russian foreign ministry after the death of forty french soldiers or mercenaries, call them what you want in ukraine, so in general on the one hand, it’s an open secret, on the other hand, french society is by no means ready for escalation. today, the minister of foreign affairs of the republic, stefan sajurne , said on a local radio station that france will not send its troops to ukraine to conduct military operations. he added that the citizens of his country - quote: will not die for ukraine. and these words are in contrast to the recent statement by the pr