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French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy depart for a summit in Brussels, on the Military Airport Villacoublay in Velizy-Villacoublay, France February 9, 2023. Mohammed Badra/Pool through REUTERS
PARIS — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated in an interview printed on Sunday that the French chief Emmanuel Macron was losing his time contemplating any type of dialogue with Russia.
Zelensky, interviewed by the Italian every day Corriere della Sera, was responding to a suggestion by Macron that Russia ought to be “defeated but not crushed” and that the battle in Ukraine must be settled by negotiations.
The two presidents spoke by phone on Sunday.
“It will be a useless dialogue. In fact Macron is wasting his time. I have come to the conclusion that we are not able to change the Russian attitude,” Zelensky advised the Italian every day.
“If they have decided to isolate themselves in the dream of rebuilding the old Soviet empire, we cannot do anything about it. It is up to them to choose or not to cooperate with the community of nations on the basis of mutual respect.”
He rejected any suggestion that it was Western sanctions that had pushed Russia President Vladimir Putin into isolation.
“It was instead the decision to launch the war that marginalized Putin,” he was quoted as saying.
On Friday, Macron urged allies to step up navy help for Ukraine.
He additionally stated in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche he didn’t consider in regime change, that there was little probability of a democratic resolution from inside Russian civil society and no different to bringing Putin again to the negotiating desk.
Those feedback prompted the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, to say that France ought to bear in mind the nineteenth century defeat in Russia of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Macron has drawn criticism from some Nato allies for delivering blended messages relating to his coverage on the warfare between Ukraine and Russia.
In describing their dialog on Sunday, Zelensky made no point out of Macron’s newest feedback. The leaders mentioned methods, together with joint selections Zelensky stated had been due forward of this week’s first anniversary of Russia’s invasion.
Before a quick go to to Paris this month, Zelensky stated the French president’s harder stand on Russia in latest months confirmed had had undergone a major change.
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