Russia's Medvedev mocks Macron warning, says French leader won't be missed

(Reuters) - Russian erstwhile president Dmitry Medvedev aboriginal connected Thursday mocked French President Emmanuel Macron's informing that Russia posed a threat, saying the French person posed nary menace astatine each and would not beryllium missed erstwhile helium stepped distant from nationalist life.

"Russia has become, arsenic I talk to you and for years to come, a menace to France and Europe, says Macron," Medvedev, present lawman caput of Russia's Security Council, wrote successful English connected the X media platform.

"Micron himself poses nary large menace though. He'll vanish everlastingly nary aboriginal than May 14, 2027. And helium won't beryllium missed," helium added, misspelling the French president's name.

Macron, successful a tv code connected Wednesday evening, said Europe had to look up to the menace from Russia and projected a treatment connected extending the extortion offered by France's atomic arsenal to its European partners.

"Russia has go a menace for France and Europe," Macron said, adding that "to ticker and bash thing would beryllium madness."

Medvedev was viewed arsenic a wide during his mandate arsenic president from 2008-2012, but has since go an ardent hawk connected Russia's overseas policy.

(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Stephen Coates)