France President Emmanuel Macron said that in a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin handed him a request for the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky about the negotiations.
According to him, he spent the “sincere, direct and fast conversation with President Putin at the request of the President Zelensky”, in order to “first of all ask him to stop fighting in the shortest possible time, but it is especially offered to him negotiations, ask him about negotiations with the president Zelensky, “reported Russian.
As Macron clarified at a press conference in Brussels on Friday night after an extraordinary EU summit, Zelensky asked to call Putin, because he could not get through to him.
Also, Macron declared the need to save channels for contacts from the Russian Federation to achieve cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, but stressed that at the moment Russia consciously chose a different way.