French President Emmanuel Macron plans to visit Russia and Ukraine next week. The French leader wants to meet with his counterparts in order to mediate the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
This is reported by the AFP news Agency on Twitter.
“French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Moscow and Kyiv to meet his counterparts next week in an effort to mediate the crisis over Ukraine,” the message reads.
With this, Macron wants to visit Moscow on February 7, and Kyiv on February 8.
As the French news agency noted, Western powers have been engaged in intense diplomatic efforts to try deter a feared Russian invasion of ex-Soviet Ukraine.
It should be added that on Thursday, February 3, the French leader held telephone conversations first with the President of the Russian Federation, and later with the President of Ukraine.
Both conversations were devoted to the discussion of the situation in Donbas, the intensification of the work of the "Normandy format" and ways to reach a peaceful, diplomatic solution to the conflict, as well as the proposals of the Russian Federation on the so-called "security guarantees".
Earlier, Apostrophe wrote that French President Emmanuel Macron told the President of the Russian Federation that France would protect the territorial integrity of Ukraine.