As the president of France and former EU presidency, facing such malevolent act conduced by both the Russians and the Americans, I consider this issue very incomprehensive.
The Russians remain implacably opposed to letting Bush build a ground-based mid-course interceptor—the GBI—base in Poland to try to shoot down any future Iranian intercontinental ballistic missiles.
You've got the North Koreans and of course the Russians have not only been developing these intermediate range missiles but hypersonic and more strategic nuclear capable missiles as well.
So far in the Paris region, there's been a forty-six percent decline in Japanese visitors, thirty-five percent fewer Russians and twenty-seven percent fewer Italians.
This entire air base is covered in ice and yet, the Russians have managed to extend the runway to a point that they can land even their heaviest aircraft here including strategic bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
The reason: many Russians really care about their country's ability to influence world even if it comes to sanctions and a hit to their own quality of life, they're proud of it.
The Russians are also issuing a stern warning towards the United States, saying that any sort of intervention on the part of the U.S. could have what they call very grave consequences.
U.S. prosecutors say both events were organized by the same trail group half a world away in St. Petersburg. Russians traveled to the U.S. on a fact-finding mission in 2014, say prosecutors.