The French president said the world's powers should "draw a red line" with Russia and consider punishing Moskva if they cross this boundary.

"We have to clearly identify the red string with Russia," the French President Emmanuel Macron said in the interview with the US CBS radio station today.

"This is a unique way. Punish it is not enough, but it is part of many measures," he said, expressing his agreement with the US President Joe Biden ready to talk to the Russian President

The French President visited the Faculty of Child Psychology at Reim Hospital, Northeast France, on April 14.

Macron's comments were different from France's previous stance to Russia, pushing France towards the closer to the US allies.

The French President launched a comment in the context of the relationship between the US and Russia's most stressed since the end of the 1989 cold war. Last week, the United States imposed a series of sanctions to Russia, with alleged Moskva Can

In response, Russia asked 10 US diplomats to leave the country and asked the US ambassador to the country to consult.

In Europe, the stress between Moskva and Kiev also increased, in the context of the Russian army strengthened the presence along the Ukrainian border and continuously took place clashes in the east of the country between the Ukrainian army and separatist

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on April 16 called for peace negotiations with Moksva.