The Head of State hailed the “heroic resistance” of the Ukrainian people in the face of “terrible attacks by the Russian army and its auxiliaries”, during a speech in Bormes-les-Mimosas.
Article written by
Published
Update
Reading time : 1 min.
Emmanuel Macron denounced “brutal attack” of Vladimir Putin against Ukraine and called on the French to “accepting to pay the price for freedom and our values” facing the economic consequences of the conflict, during a speech in Bormes-les-Mimosas (Var), Friday August 19.
During the ceremony of the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Bormes-les-Mimosas, on August 17, 1944, Emmanuel Macron warned of the return of the “ghosts of the spirit of revenge, [des] flagrant violations of state sovereignty, [de] the intolerable contempt of the people [et de] the imperialist will [qui] reappear from the past to impose themselves in the daily life of our Europe, our neighbors, our friends”. The Head of State, who had spoken with Vladimir Putin by telephone a few hours earlier, welcomed the “heroic resistance” of the Ukrainian people in the face of “terrible assaults by the Russian army and its auxiliaries”.
In “this war that thunders at our doors”Emmanuel Macron affirms that“it will take strength of soul to face the coming time, resist uncertainties, sometimes ease and adversity and, united, agree to pay the price for our freedom and our values”.
The president had already prepared the French for a difficult return to school and winter, during his July 14 interview, due to the risks of energy shortages and soaring prices induced by the war in Ukraine. He then accused Russia of using the gas as a “war weapon” by limiting its deliveries in response to the heavy European sanctions aimed at it and called for “collectively return to a logic of sobriety” energy.