BRUSSELS. June 24 (Interfax) - Leader of France's far-right National Rally Jordan Bardella promised to support Ukraine in the event of his party's victory in the parliamentary election, but said there would be red lines for such assistance.
Bardella said presenting his party's election program in Paris on Monday that he is not going "to question France's current commitments", including with regard to Ukraine, French media said.
However, Bardella said he has "a very clear-cut red line" regarding this conflict - "this is about sending troops to Ukrainian soil."
At the same time, Bardella said he would like "logistics support and assistance to Ukraine in the form of defense materials to continue," but another red line he said "is supplies of long-range missiles or military equipment that could lead to escalation." The politician said he is speaking about weapons that could "deliver strikes directly on Russian cities."
This could result in escalation with the nuclear-weapon state, he said.
French President Emmanuel Macron said in late May that Western partners ought to allow Ukraine to respond to Russian missile strikes by destroying sites inside Russia from where strikes have been carried out on Ukrainian territory.
Macron has also said on a number of occasions that he does not rule out sending French troops to Ukraine under certain conditions.
Following the Renaissance pro-presidential social liberal party's defeat in the June 9 elections to the European Parliament amid major gains for the National Rally, Macron dissolved the National Assembly, the lower house of the French parliament, the same day and called a snap parliamentary election, due to take place in two rounds - on June 30 and July 7.
Bardella reiterated he would agree to take on the post of prime minister only if his party received the absolute majority in the National Assembly election.
Findings of opinion polls conducted by the Elabe research and consulting firm for BFMTV and La Tribune Dimanche and published on June 23 show that if the election had taken place over the past weekend, the National Rally and its allies would have received 36% of votes, which would have allowed the party to get 250 to 280 seats in the National Assembly, where the absolute majority is 289 seats.