War in Ukraine: “Vladimir Putin only understands the balance of power”, says François Hollande

François Hollande, present Thursday, February 24 on the set of 20 Hours, knows Vladimir Poutine well. “Vladimir Putin has a plan. He’s been doing it consistently for years, it’s to get back to what the Soviet Empire once was.explains the latter. And so, in successive stages, he tries to get his hands on the countries that have escaped from the bosom of Russia.“There was Belarus, but also Kazakhstan, Georgia, in 2008, Crimea, and finally the territories to the east in 2014. “And it continues,” explains François Hollande.

“Vladimir Putin only understands the balance of power”says François Hollande. What can stop him are our abilities, our reactions, and that’s what he’s still looking at today. He believes that it is possible now to destroy the independence, sovereignty, integrity of Ukraine“, continues the former head of state. According to him, Vladimir Putin “will measure the extent of its action by our capacity to react“. Francois Hollande welcomed Emmanuel Macron’s action, while deploring the omission of “make understand that there will be actions extremely rough and tough“.