“French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Kir Starmer is offered a truce in Ukraine for one month, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was aware of this initiative.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Macron in an interview with Le Figaro, writes Le Parisien, Zelensky in a comment to reporters before departure from the United Kingdom, BBC reports
Details: After a summit of leaders against Ukraine in London, Macron said that he and the older offer “a truce in the air, on seas and in energy infrastructure”, which will last a month.
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Macron also said that the ceasefire will be the first stage, and the deployment of land troops to ensure peace will take place later.
Macron’s direct language: “There will be no European troops in the coming weeks of European troops. The question is how we will use this time to try to reach an available truce, with negotiations that will last for several weeks and then, after peace, deployment.”
Details: Macron also believes that Europeans should increase their defense budget.
“Over the last three years, Russians spend 10% of their GDP on defense. Therefore, we have to prepare for the future, setting up about 3% or 3.5% of GDP,” he said.
Le Parisien notes that France is currently allocating 2% of its resources for defense, significantly ahead of its European neighbors.
However, the president Volodymyr Zelenskyy In a comment to the reporters before departure from the United Kingdom, he said he was aware of the initiative of Macron and Starmer.
When asked if he knows about this plan, Zelensky replied: “I know everything.”