For weeks, there has been cross-national concern thatFor weeks, there has been cross-national concern that a war could break out in Ukraine on European soil. But Russia's head of state Vladimir Putin has now assured him that this will not happen, says his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has given assurances that he will refrain from further escalation in the Ukraine conflict, according to French President Emmanuel Macron. He had obtained assurances from Putin that there would be "neither a deterioration nor an escalation", Macron said on Tuesday shortly before his arrival in Kiev, where he was due to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj.
Macron had discussed the Ukraine crisis with Putin in Moscow on Monday. "My aim was to block the game in order to prevent an escalation and open up new perspectives," the French president said. "This goal has been achieved for me."
Macron had travelled to Moscow on his own initiative, but after lengthy coordination with numerous EU states and the US. After his talks with Selenskyj in Kiev, he plans a stopover in Berlin to exchange views on the Ukraine conflict with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Polish President Andrzej Duda.
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