New Delhi, May 26 -- Russia's foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova on Monday mocked at a viral video of French President Emmanuel Macron's face being shoved away by his wife Brigitte Macron as the couple disembarked a plane to begin their official visit to Southeast Asia.

As the couple landed in Vietnam to visit Hanoi, Zakharova in a post on Telegram wrote Emmanuel Macron had got a "a right hook from his wife".

But she said Macron's advisers would try to explain away the gesture.

"Did the first lady decide to cheer up her husband with a gentle pat on the cheek and miscalculated her strength? Was she handing him a tissue, but missed? Did she want to fix his collar but ended up reaching the beloved face," she said in the post

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