French President Emmanuel Macron was not the only one who made it clear that they had gotten the message behind Russian President Vladimir Putin’s May 6 announcement that tactical nuclear tests would be carried out in response to Western threats. The City of London’s flagship Financial Times, for example, took proper note, quoting Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying on May 6: “They [NATO powers] were talking about being prepared and even intending to send armed deployments to Ukraine, which is essentially putting NATO soldiers against the Russian military. This is a totally new level of escalating tensions. It is unprecedented, it demands special attention and special measures,” Peskov said.
Financial Times also cited “Dmitry Medvedev, a former stand-in President for Putin, [who] said Russia `would have to respond’ if western countries sent troops to Ukraine, prompting a `global catastrophe.’”
