France's Troops in Ukraine: Russia's Warning of Potential Showdown

A Russian official warned that France sending troops to Ukraine could trigger not only political but other unspecified responses, escalating risks of clashes between nuclear powers.

If France sends its troops to Ukraine, Russia's response will be not only political, the RIA news agency cited a Russian foreign ministry official as saying on Wednesday.

Artyom Studennikov, the head of the European department at the ministry, did not specify which measures Russia would take in such an event, but said Moscow has warned Paris about them and added that sending French troops to Ukraine would increase the risk of a clash between two nuclear powers.