Marine Le Pen proposes closer Nato-Russia ties after Ukraine war

‘I only ever defended the interests of France’: Marine Le Pen during the press conference in Paris. Photograph: Vincent Isore/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock

The French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has said that once the Russia-Ukraine war is over, she would propose closer links between Nato and Russia and pull France out of the military command of the US-led alliance.

“As soon as the Russian-Ukrainian war is over and has been settled by a peace treaty, I will call for the implementation of a strategic rapprochement between Nato and Russia,” she said at a press conference.