Vladimir Putin on Thursday expressed his intention to continue “without compromise” his offensive against “nationalists” in Ukraine during a telephone interview with French President Emmanuel Macron, according to the Kremlin.
During this interview, Mr Putin also expressed his “disagreement” with Emmanuel Macron’s previous day’s speech on Ukraine and threatened to add “additional requests” to his long list of demands for Kyiv for negotiations, add the same source.
Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin spoke to each other again this Thursday, a day after the French president’s speech on the situation in Ukraine.
“Russia is not under attack, it is the aggressor”
In it, Emmanuel Macron said that France “stands” next to Ukraine, seven days after the start of the Russian invasion, that “we did everything to avoid it.” He welcomed the fact that “France and its allies have” quickly and proportionately taken sanctions against Russia “, while reaffirming that” we are not at war with Russia “.
“Russia is not under attack, it is the aggressor,” “this war is not a NATO-Russia conflict,” and “even less the fight against Nazism, it is a lie,” he added, accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of “only one “who provoked the war.