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Thursday June 16, Emmanuel Macron traveled to kyiv, Ukraine, for the first time since the start of the war. He is accompanied by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and of the prime minister Italian Mario Draghi. They went to the city martyrdom ofIrpin before meeting the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky.
Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelensky have had on the phone for a hundred hours. Thursday, June 16, they finally meet on the steps of the presidential palace in kyiv. Some hours more early, Emmanuel Macron visited the ruins ofIrpinin the suburbs of kyiv, with its Italian, German and Romanian counterparts. A Ukrainian official told them about the massacres taking place there.
“We have seen the first traces of what are war crimes”testified Emmanuel Macron. The objective of the visit is to show France’s support for Ukraine and to clarify things, a week after the French head of state said that Russia should not be humiliated. “Today, Ukraine must be able to resist and win”he said. Wednesday June 15, around 11 p.m., Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz and mario Draghi boarded a special train in southeastern Poland for ten hours. A trip intended to show the European Union’s support for Ukraine.