Crisis in Ukraine: Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin had a telephone interview, the positions remain fixed

The content of the telephone conversation between the French and Russian presidents on Saturday February 12 was substantially the same as during their face-to-face meeting in Moscow five days earlier. Vladimir Putin asserted that he had no offensive intentions, “but Emmanuel Macron asked him for guarantees and he told the Russian president that NATO and the West were determined to act if Russia carried out military operations in Ukraine”details Jeff Wittenberg, journalist France Televisions, in duplex ofElysium.

“The dialogue is therefore still there, but it is bitter, and it is even more bitter between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden who, admittedly, spoke to each other this evening on the telephone for a little over an hour. Nothing has yet filtered from the precise content of their conversation, but, a few hours before, the Russian president had denounced ‘provocative accusations’ from the United States”continues the journalist.