PARIS, November 25. /TASS/. The leader of the French party The Patriots, Florian Philippot, has called on his supporters to come out in protest of the potential deployment of Western troops to Ukraine.

Le Monde reported on Monday that European elites were revisiting the issue of sending troops to Ukraine in anticipation of US President-elect Donald Trump cutting support for Kiev when he takes office.

"The newspaper’s reports about preparations for the dispatch of French troops to Ukraine are shocking," Philippot wrote on his X page. "Not a single French citizen, not a single soldier can or should accept this because it will inevitably lead to a nuclear third world war."

He called on his supporters to rally "in support for peace and against this madness" on December 1.

After a conference on Ukraine in Paris on February 26 that involved delegates from around 20 Western nations, French President Emmanuel Macron said that the participants had considered sending ground troops to Ukraine. Although no consensus was reached, he left the door open for such a scenario in the future. Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said back then that the deployment of foreign military contingents to Ukraine would entail negative, up to irreparable, consequences.