Emmanuel Macron spoke with Vladimir Putin in an attempt to ease tensions

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It’s a phone call to major issues. Emmanuel Macron spoke on the morning of Friday January 28 with Vladimir Putin about the crisis with Ukraine. The objective is to attempt dialogue in order to avoid a war between the two countries.

From his office in the Kremlin (Russia), Vladimir Putin communicates with Emmanuel Macron via a telephone interview. The goal is to try to defuse the crisis. For Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, what is at stake in this crisis is essentially based on the will of the Russian president. “It’s up to Vladimir Putin to say if he wants confrontation or consultation”he said at the microphone of RTL.

This noon of January 28, 2022, Moscow tried to reassure about the intentions of its president. “If it depends on Russia, there will be no wars (…) but neither will we allow our interests to be blatantly violated”, warns Sergei Lavrov, head of Russian diplomacy. It is difficult to decipher the intentions of Russia, which still refuses to allow Ukraine to join NATO. In the meantime, each side continues to prepare in case of attack.

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