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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sylvie Corbet

Poland and Baltic nations welcome Macron's nuclear deterrent proposal

Belgium Europe Summit - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Poland and Baltic nations welcomed Thursday a proposal by French President Emmanuel Macron to launch talks about using France’s nuclear deterrent to protect the continent from Russian threats, a move Moscow quickly dismissed as “extremely confrontational.”

The comments came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy joined European Union leaders in Brussels for an emergency summit on defense and security.

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