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Amid the ongoing trouble over Russia-Ukraine truce, France President Emmanuel Macron on March 6 said that he had been approached by other leaders during the European Union's defense summit in Brussels about his offer to extend French nuclear deterrence.

Moscow calls the French president’s remarks a “threat.”