Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said today that French President Emmanuel Macron is out of touch with reality after in his speech last night he called Moscow a threat to Europe and said he would consider placing European allies under France's nuclear protection, Reuters reported.
"He makes some completely out-of-touch statements every day that contradict previous ones. A storyteller," Zakharova said of Macron.
In addition, she called him "atomic Ole-close-your-eyes", TASS reported.
"He is also trying to open an umbrella, but a nuclear one, over Europe," the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said, referring to the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale.
The main character "Ole-close-your-eyes" carries umbrellas that he opens over sleeping children. Over good children he opens the umbrella with pleasant pictures so that they have good dreams, and over bad children - the umbrella without pictures so that they do not dream, TASS notes.