Macron said that while in a tyrant at the New Europe Summit, he is with the Chancellor of Germany Friedrich Merz, British Prime Minister Kirmer and Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tuski talked with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. After that, the leaders called Trump. Tusk also told about this, noting that “very difficult days are waiting for Europe.
“President Trump, although this is his responsibility and he must confirm this, he intends to organize an exchange of views in the coming hours or days with the Russian side to find out what happened and try to move on,” Macron said.
The French leader added that in the event of a negative result and refusal of Russia, Europe and the United States will have to strengthen sanctions against the Russian Federation.
Earlier the head of the French Foreign Ministry Jean-Noel Barro He noted the need to work on new measures, “which could strangle the Russian economy once and for all.”
At the same time, the illegitimate Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Russia not to be afraid of the Sanius, and called their initiators “morons.”
Context
On the night of May 11, after the ultimatum of European countries to stop fire in Ukraine, the illegitimate president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin invited Ukraine to resume direct negotiations on the war “without preliminary conditions “ In Istanbul on May 15.
Trump urged Ukraine to immediately agree to a meeting with the Russian Federation. After that, Zelensky said: he will wait for Putin in Turkey on May 15. The Kremlin was silent in response, confirming the composition of the delegation only on the night of May 14. The illegitimate president of the Russian Federation did not come to a meeting in Turkey, instead sent a low -level delegation (it was headed by Putin's assistant Medinsky), which Zelensky He called the butacher.
Trump, who at first did not exclude the opportunity to come to Istanbul, after Putin’s refusal to arrive in Turkey said that he “was not going to” go there. “Why would he go if I don’t go? ”Trump said on May 15, answering the question of the absence of the head of the Kremlin in the negotiations.
On May 16, negotiations of delegations of the Russian Federation and Ukraine were negotiated. The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine said according to the results of negotiations that the Russians demanded a number of things unacceptable to Ukraine.
The interlocutor in Ukrainian diplomacy told Sky News that in the negotiations in Istanbul The Russian Federation demanded the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from “its territories” for the ceasefire (what exactly was being discussed, the channel did not specify). There were other requirements that cannot be fulfilled.
According to the informed interlocutor, which was referred to by the journalist The Economist Oliver Carroll, the Russian delegation also threatened to seize the Kharkov or Sumy region. Medinsky said that the Russian Federation allegedly “could fight forever.” In addition, the interlocutor of the “suspension” said that the delegation of the Russian Federation was made a demand to recognize Crimea by the Russian one.
Zelensky noted that Russians “do everything possible to turn this meeting in Istanbul into a staged, empty process.”
