Macron: The coming days will be decisive in the issue of de-escalation on the border of Russia and Ukraine

French President Emmanuel Macron believes that the coming days will be decisive in the issue of de-escalation on the Russian-Ukrainian border. He expressed this opinion tonight following the results of talks held in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Reuters reports.

“The next few days will be decisive and will require intensive discussions that we will have together,” the French leader said, quoted by UNIAN.

For his part, Putin said that a number of Macron’s ideas could defuse the crisis on the Russian-Ukrainian border.

Meanwhile, Haqqin.az recalls that before the meeting in Moscow, the French president hoped to achieve a peace agreement on the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis. According to the authors of the newspaper Politico, in this way Macron wanted to obtain the status of a European leader who “prevented an attack on Ukraine” and returned diplomatic power to Europe in the international arena.

At the same time, at a press conference, the French president said that his country must build security and stability in Europe, and for this, not just new, but even “innovative” solutions, including within the OSCE, can be used.

We add that back in November-December 2021, the world media was filled with the topic of the alleged Russian invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions that should follow. According to the authors and experts of these publications, a sign of “invasion” is the concentration of Russian military equipment in the regions bordering Ukraine. Among the likely sanctions were both the shutdown of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, as well as restrictions against Russian energy companies, and the shutdown of the SWIFT international interbank settlement system.