Emmanuel Macron said in an interview Friday night that the Russian president had made a historic and fundamental mistake by accelerating Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba dismissed Macron’s reasoning in a message posted on Twitter, saying such calls could “insult France and any other country that demands it”.
“Russia humiliates itself. We should focus instead on how to reform Russia. It will bring peace and save lives,” Kuleba wrote.
Mikhail Podoljak, Adviser to the President of Ukraine who was a member of the Ukrainian delegation in talks with the Russian side, said in response to a question on Ukrainian state television about mediation between the warring parties: Russian forces to the extent of Ukraine’s borders in the negotiations “.
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