French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he was in favour of imposing new sanctions on Russia in the coming days if Moscow failed to respect a ceasefire, mentioning financial services and oil and gas as possible targets.

On Tuesday, France’s Foreign Ministry formally attributed those cyberattacks and several others to APT28, a Russian military intelligence (GRU) hacking unit also known as Fancy Bear, best known in America for leaking Hillary Clinton’s emails during the ...

France is ready to discuss deploying its nuclear-armed warplanes in other European countries, as the United States does in certain nations,

The report said the hacking aimed to collect intelligence, notably in the context of Russia’s war in Ukraine. France is among Ukraine’s most vocal backers, and its government is working to ensure that an eventual US-brokered peace deal doesn’t ...

France insists that Russia’s proposal for direct talks with Ukraine aimed at ending must involve a unconditional, 30-day ceasefire.

Defense company Safran is upping production of its AASM Hammer to 1,200 a year, and said it could double that. Ukraine is using them against Russia.

The Kremlin spokesperson accused European nations, including the UK, of making "contradictory" and "generally confrontational" statements.

President Vladimir Putin appears to be facing a dilemma as Russian and Ukrainian representatives prepare for direct peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey, on Thursday.

France said on Monday that leaders at a meeting on Ukraine this weekend had asked the European Commission to put together new "massive" sanctions targeting Russia's oil and financial sector if Russia failed to agree a ceasefire.