He just yielded a mile on sanctions, as this Financial Times article shows:
https://archive.ph/20260922053335/https://www.ft.com/content/3cf6c88e-bd65-4d81-a93b-437e00f9ce3f

It is because of this sanctions issue that his, and France's commitment is being questioned, and that is why he is now making statements like this.
What a phoney.

And what makes it even more enraging is that both Mélenchon's leftist party and the Nazis in France would help Russia, so a reasonable French voter doesn't seem to have a lot of options