Ukraine/ "Either through negotiation or war": the truths from Putin to Macron

During this call, which lasted from 12:00 to 13:45 and initiated by Emmanuel Macron, President Putin told his counterpart that he would achieve his objectives "either through negotiation or war". Vladimir Putin wants the demilitarization of Ukraine, its neutrality between NATO and Russia and its denazification. Conditions on which Putin does not back down. Macron had this repeated in more than an hour.

To Macron's demands for bombing of civilians and nuclear infrastructure, Vladimir Putin provides a scathing denial. The Russian head of state "denied" to the French president "that his army is targeting civilians", and assured that he was "not in his intention" to attack nuclear power plants. Vladimir Putin replied "that he was ready to respect the IAEA standards for the protection of power plants"," according to the French presidency.

"The longer the conflict lasts, the more the risk of seeing more brutal forms of war increases," Macron told his Russian counterpart on Sunday, according to the Élysée report. "The chemical risk is not proven, but we know how Russia may have behaved in previous conflicts," adds Emmanuel Macron in front of the inflexibility of Vladimir Putin.

Russian soldiers are maintaining their war plan to gradually bring down the major Ukrainian cities. Macron says he has described the situation on several hot fronts. "Karkhiv is under heavy siege and heavy shelling. Mariupol is surrounded. Bombing has begun while Kiev is about to be completely surrounded. "regrets Emmanuel Macron. Vladimir Putin cares...