If France sends its troops to Ukraine, Russia's response will be not only political, the RIA news agency cited a Russian foreign ministry official as saying on Wednesday, Paralel.Az reports citing XM.

Artyom Studennikov, the head of the European department at the ministry, did not specify which measures Russia would take in such an event, but said Moscow has warned Paris about them and added that sending French troops to Ukraine would increase the risk of a clash between two nuclear powers.