French President Emmanuel Macron said he will meet with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of his phone call with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. He said this in an interview he gave to the newspaper. Parisian.
“I was waiting for the opportunity to discuss everything in detail with President Biden (before speaking with Putin. – socialbites.ca). “I was also expecting a meeting with the Director-General of the IAEA, which I will speak with again this Sunday. And of course, as I always do, I have to talk to President Zelensky first,” Macron said.
The day before the President of France declaration In an interview with TF1, he said that Paris and Washington should prepare a dialogue between Moscow and Kyiv.
Before Macron spoke At a joint press conference with US President Joe Biden in Washington, he said he would continue dialogue with Putin to reach a solution to the Ukraine conflict.
Before that, press secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov knowledgeablePutin’s schedule currently does not include phone calls with Macron.