"Reference News Network" quoted AFP as reporting that on April 8, local time, in an interview with "France 24", French Foreign Minister Stefana Céjourne said that after Moscow made completely different statements about the latest call between the defense ministers of Russia and France, Paris is no longer interested in any dialogue with Russia, "Discussions with Russian officials are not in our current interests, because statements and information about them are lies." "
Stefana Sejourne claimed that "perhaps the most important thing is that there is progress in the military situation in Ukraine so that relations between the two countries can be restored", before trusting the two sides is restored, and that "this tradition cannot be continued, because it was originally a proposal, and the Russian statement in Russian says that we do not cooperate." ”
Earlier this month, the defense ministers of Russia and France had their first phone call since October 2022. In the phone call, Lekorny strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Moscow, expressed condolences to the families of the victims of the terrorist attack, the French government is willing to strengthen cooperation with Russia on counter-terrorism matters, and said that there is no evidence that the terrorist attack in Moscow is related to Ukraine, and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu warned France not to send troops to Ukraine, and stressed that the meeting on Ukraine in Switzerland in June would be "meaningless" without Russia's participation.
But just after the call, French President Emmanuel Macron accused the Kremlin of making "bizarre threatening remarks," in which the Kremlin stressed in a statement that it "hopes" that French intelligence services are not involved in the Moscow terrorist attacks, a move that has sparked strong dissatisfaction from the French government: after drawing Ukraine into the Moscow terrorist attack, the Kremlin is also trying to draw more Western countries in.
The Russian government's relations with most Western countries, especially the United States, have deteriorated. Earlier, the Kremlin revealed that relations between the United States and Russia are likely to recover, especially on global security issues, but after the talks between the two sides, relations between the two sides can only be described as worse.
According to Reuters, on April 5, local time, when asked about the United States' plan to propose to the United Nations a proposal to ban the deployment of nuclear weapons in space, Kremlin spokesman and Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the main potential areas of dialogue between the two governments of the United States and Russia are only issues related to strategic security, including space issues. It is reported that two months ago, a US government source revealed that Washington had information on Russia's development of new nuclear weapons, especially the deployment of nuclear weapons in space, but the Kremlin denied the relevant accusations.
Since the Kremlin launched a "special military operation" against Ukraine in 2022, the United States has provided Ukraine with all kinds of support, including military assistance, and in the Kremlin's words, the U.S.-Russia relationship has now fallen to "below zero."
Russia's bad relations with most Western countries are not only related to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine full-scale war, but also related to the Kremlin's political infiltration of the West, etc., at least most Western governments think so, believing that the Kremlin is using multiple means to interfere in Western elections and other issues, and trying to undermine Western values, etc.
According to the Washington Post, U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman and heavyweight House member Mike Turner claimed that the Kremlin's propaganda offensive against the United States had "infected a large part of our party's base," that "there were nightly entertainment programs in which I saw Russia-related propaganda that were almost identical to the propaganda of the Russian state media," and that "these programs introduced all sorts of inaccurate conspiracy theories and actually helped the Kremlin with its propaganda."
However, Mike Turner did not specify which Republican lawmakers were helping the Kremlin publicize, saying only that "it is obvious."
The Kremlin is using all means to break the game, in addition to co-opting any possible allies, mainly to undermine Western unity and support for Ukraine, and to create a threat to the core values of the West.