French President Emmanuel Macron is not a threat and no one will miss him after his term ends, said Deputy President of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev.

Russia warned French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday not to threaten it with nuclear rhetoric and, mocking his height by calling him 'Micron', ruled out European proposals to send peacekeeping forces from NATO members to Ukraine.

In a fiery exchange, a top Kremlin ally has taken a jab at France's Emmanuel Macron, dubbing him 'Micron' amidst rising tensions over nuclear talks.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov responded on Thursday to the remarks made by French President Emmanuel Macron. Lavrov stated that it is not Moscow that threatens Europe, but rather Macron's nuclear rhetoric "is a threat to Russia.

The Kremlin considers Macron's offer to his European partners to protect them with his "nuclear umbrella" as a threat. Emmanuel Macron's address to the nation warning about "the Russian threat" has caused unprecedented tension between Paris and Moscow since the beginning of the Ukrainian war.

Despite his meeting with American President, Donald Trump only ten days ago, with Trump’s volte-face in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky buckling under American pressure,

Poland and Baltic nations welcomed Thursday a proposal by French President Emmanuel Macron to launch talks about using France’s nuclear deterrent to protect the continent from Russian threats, a move Moscow quickly dismissed as “extremely confrontational.