Macron: Putin made a historic and fundamental mistake with the war in Ukraine

French President Emmanuel Macron said today that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had made “a historic and fundamental mistake” in launching an attack on Ukraine and that he was “isolated” today.

“I think – and I have told him – that he made a historic and fundamental mistake against his people, himself and in history,” Macron said in an interview with the French regional press on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the war in Ukraine. .

“I think he is isolated,” Macron said of Putin, adding that the road to international isolation was difficult.

The French president reiterated that “we must not humiliate Russia” – a position that has provoked reactions in Eastern Europe – “so that the day the fighting stops, we can find a way out through diplomacy”.

Commenting on the pressure to travel to Kyiv, where many European leaders have already gone, he replied: “Today, I do not rule out anything.”

“We want to increase Ukraine’s economic and military support. And finally, do everything we can to export grain from Ukraine,” he said, contradicting Putin’s assertion that grain exports “are not a problem.”

He clarified that the deliveries of French self-propelled guns Ceasar to Ukraine “will be compensated”. “I have asked our industrialists to speed up arms production. It is not only a matter of reorganizing our stocks, but also of strengthening our independence,” said the French president.

SOURCE: AMPE

Source: Capital

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