“I think and I told him that he made a historic and fundamental mistake for his people, for himself and for History,” Macron said on the 100th day of the conflict in statements to various French regional media.
“I think he is isolated. Closing in isolation is one thing, knowing how to get out is a difficult path, ”Macron also emphasized.
The French President reiterated that there would be no need to “humiliate Russia” – a phrase highly undesirable in Eastern Europe – “so that when the fighting is over one day, we can begin to exit through diplomatic channels.”
When asked about a possible trip to Kyiv, and when many of his European colleagues have already visited the Ukrainian capital, he replied: “Today I do not exclude anything.”
“We want to increase financial and military support for Ukraine. And, finally, to do everything possible so that cereals leave Ukraine,” he added, contradicting Vladimir Putin, for whom the export of cereals “would not be a problem.”
According to him, France’s supplies of Caesar guns to the Ukrainian army will be “compensated.”
“I asked our industrialists to speed up the production of weapons, because it is not only about replenishing our “stocks”, but also about strengthening our independence,” the head of state stressed.
The Frenchman was killed “in the fighting” in Ukraine, the French Foreign Ministry said today, 100 days after the start of the Russian invasion.
“We have received the sad news that a Frenchman has been mortally wounded in action in Ukraine,” the Quai d’Orsay said in a statement, expressing “condolences to the family.”
According to a security source interviewed by AFP, the man was “a soldier who volunteered” to fight in Ukraine.
Two Reuters journalists were slightly injured in eastern Ukraine today, and their driver, who came from a region controlled by Russian-speaking separatists, died, the agency said.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, at least eight journalists have been killed on the ground in the line of duty, according to the non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
In the early hours of February 24, Russia launched a military offensive in Ukraine that has displaced more than 14 million people from their homes, according to UN figures that rank this refugee and displaced person crisis as the world’s worst. World War II (1939-1945).
Also, according to the UN, about 15 million people in Ukraine are in need of humanitarian assistance.
The Russian invasion, justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin as the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security, was condemned by the international community as a whole, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing sanctions on Russia that affect virtually every sector, from banking to sports. .
The UN has confirmed the deaths of more than 4,100 civilians and almost 5,000 wounded in the war, which is now 100 years old, but the organization acknowledged that these figures are not true.
