Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokaci guda, duk manyan ƙasashen Turai sun yi aiki don raunana tasirin Rasha a kudu maso gabashin Turai, wanda ya kasance mafi ƙarfi a Montenegro. Sanin yanayin mutanensa, Danilo ya ƙi yin sulhu game da ikon mallaka na Montenegro har ya guji matsin lamba daga Turawa. A lokaci guda, Rasha ba ta cikin wani matsayi don taimaka wa Montenegro bayan shan wahala a cikin Crimean War a 1854. A cikin taron da aka yi a Paris
a cikin 1856, wakilan gwamnatin Rasha ba su da isasshen ƙarfi don tallafawa buƙatun Montenegrin don 'yanci da faɗaɗa ƙasa. Koyaya, gwamnatin Rasha ta amsa takardar Danilo "cewa gwamnatin Rasha koyaushe ta amince da 'yancin Montenegro kuma koyaushe za ta yi hakan ba tare da la'akari da matsayin sauran manyan ƙasashe ba". A lokacin tafiya zuwa Daular Faransa ta Biyu, Danilo ya sami taimakon kuɗi (200,000 francs a shekara) daga Faransa, yana fatan cewa Faransa za ta tabbatar da amincewa da ikon mallaka na Montenegro. Ta wannan hanyar, Napoleon III ya yi fatan wannan zai kawo Montenegro kusa da tasirin Faransa a kan Rasha. Wannan aikin na Danilo ya jawo wa kansa magabta da yawa, tun da yake mutane da yawa masu iko a Montenegro sun ɗauki wannan a matsayin cin amanar Rasha.