Russia cautioned French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday against threatening Russia with nuclear rhetoric and ruled out European proposals to send peacekeeping forces from NATO members to Ukraine.

Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman and the head of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev, left, and member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of

Russia's Deputy head of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev takes part in a wreath laying ceremony marking Defender of the Fatherland Day at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Wall in Moscow,

"Therefore, inflicting maximum defeat on the enemy 'on the battlefield' remains our main task today." Newsweek emailed the press offices of the Ukrainian presidency and the Russia

Russia's main task remains to inflict "maximum defeat" on Ukraine, former president Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.

Senior Russian politicians have reacted with glee to what they see as Volodymyr Zelenskiy's White House humiliation at the hands of Donald Trump, saying the Ukrainian leader got what he deserved and that U.

Russian former president Dmitry Medvedev early on Thursday mocked French President Emmanuel Macron's warning that Russia posed a threat, saying the French leader posed no threat at all and would not be missed once he stepped away from public life.

"Therefore, inflicting maximum defeat on the enemy 'on the battlefield' remains our main task today." Newsweek emailed the press offices of the Ukrainian presidency and the Russia

Medvedev, who ranks just behind Putin in the security council, wants Russia to press the attack as its "primary objective," saying US could resume.

Top Russian official and former president Dmitry Medvedev celebrated what he called President Trump’s “proper slap down” of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on Friday. “The insolent pig finally got a proper slap down in the Oval Office,

The deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev said Moscow’s “main task today” remains “inflicting maximum defeat” on Ukraine. According to Newsweek, Medvedev, a former president and prime minister of Russia,

Former Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev on Friday claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky got a “solid slap” from U.S. President Donald Trump. Medvedev, who is the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council and leader of the ruling United Russia party,