Emmanuel Macron will visit Ukraine in February, new arms deliveries announced

Emmanuel Macron also specified that France was “in the process of finalizing a security agreement” with kyiv, of the type that concluded on Friday between the United Kingdom and Ukraine over a period of ten years.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French Head of State Emmanuel Macron, during the summit of the European Political Community in Granada (Spain), October 5, 2023. (LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP)

The President of the Republic will soon return to kyiv (Ukraine). During his press conference at the Elysée, Tuesday January 16, Emmanuel Macron announced that he would go “in February” in Ukraine. “We are going to make new deliveries: around forty Scalp missiles and several hundred bombs”added the head of state to journalists.

Emmanuel Macron also clarified that France was “finalizing a deal” security agreement with kyiv, of the type concluded on Friday between the United Kingdom and Ukraine over a period of ten years. He will detail this security agreement during his visit to Ukraine in February.

France and the European Union “will have to make new decisions in the coming weeks and months, precisely so as not to let Russia win”he added. “We cannot let Russia win and we must not do so because then the very security of Europe and the entire Russian neighborhood would be called into question.”


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