France is stepping up its aid to Ukraine, but is still counting on negotiations between kyiv and Moscow.
Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed his Russian-Ukrainian policy on France 2 on Wednesday.
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We must help Ukraine to resist, but also avoid any escalation of the conflict, prevent it from spreading to the continent and to chemical or nuclear weapons
".
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Since the start of the war, reality has twisted the arm of Emmanuel Macron's diplomatic impulses.
For a long time, the French president thought that dialogue could bring Vladimir Putin to his senses.
Barely arrived at the Élysée, he reached out to the Russian president by inviting him to Versailles.
Two years later, he offered him a
"strategic dialogue"
at Fort Brégançon.
And at the start of the war, he multiplied telephone contacts, in the hope of "
bringing him back on the right track
", in the words of a diplomatic source.
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