Paris — French President Emmanuel Macron warned against peace in Ukraine that would amount to “capitulation” in an interview with the Financial Times published on Friday.
“Peace that is a capitulation” would be “bad news for everyone”, he said shortly after US President Donald Trump rattled Washington’s NATO allies by speaking with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin about holding talks on Ukraine.
Trump on Thursday announced plans to begin negotiations, saying he thought Putin “wants peace” in Ukraine and “would tell me if he didn’t”.
🔴 Dans une interview accordée au Financial Time, Emmanuel Macron martèle que “les Européens ont un rôle à jouer” dans les discussions sur l’accord de paix entre l’Ukraine et la Russie et met en garde contre une “paix qui serait une capitulation” #ApollineMatin pic.twitter.com/l2GGedUkwx
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POST TRANSLATION: In an interview with the Financial Times, Emmanuel Macron insists that “Europeans have a role to play” in the discussions on the peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia and warns against a “peace that would be a capitulation”
Macron told the FT it would be up to Ukraine to discuss issues of territory and sovereignty but added that Europe has a role to play in regional security.
It “is up to the international community, with a specific role for the Europeans, to discuss security guarantees and, more broadly, the security framework for the entire region. That is where we have a role to play,” he said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to meet US Vice President JD Vance at a security conference in Germany Friday, as Kyiv and its European allies worry Washington and Moscow will settle the Ukraine war over their heads.
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