By bringing the Ukrainian leader first to the representatives of the Arab League meeting in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), then in Hiroshima, French diplomacy has built a series of successes. Behind the scenes, Emmanuel Macron has multiplied meetings to try to bring out an international coalition.
He hoped to rally behind him the powers still reluctant to clearly support Volodymyr Zelensky against Vladimir Putin. On the French government plane that brought him to Japan, the Ukrainian president multiplied meetings with his close guard to calibrate personalized messages in French.