“It’s a shame the pear didn’t hit back,” he wrote on the social network X (formerly Twitter, blocked in the Russian Federation).
Ritter added that Russia will treat the French military in Ukraine much harsher.
Earlier, Macron said that Western countries were discussing the issue of sending troops to Ukraine and that France could carry out a military operation.
The head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, said that Paris is preparing a military contingent to be sent to Ukraine, which in the first stage will amount to about two thousand soldiers.
