The French head of state assured that they are on the side of the Russian citizens who reject the invasion and President Zelensky, who is “the face of honor, freedom and courage”
“We are not at war against Russia,” French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday in a televised address to the nation, in which he reiterated France’s “fraternal support” for the Ukrainian government and people on the seventh day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. this country.
“We stand side by side with Russian citizens who, rejecting an undignified war being carried out in their name, have the spirit of responsibility and courage to defend peace and make it known both in Russia and elsewhere,” added the president in a 14-minute speech in prime time.
The French head of state saluted “the courage of the Ukrainian people who resist under fire from weapons.” Macron considered that the Ukrainian president Volodímir Zelenski is “the face of honor, freedom and courage.”
Emmanuel Macron, who frequently speaks on the phone with Zelensky, was willing to remain in contact “as long as necessary” with Russian President Vladimir Putin to try to convince him to “renounce arms” and “avoid contagion and expansion of the conflict”.
However, the French president dismantled in his speech one by one “the lies” spread by Russian propaganda. “There are no NATO troops or bases in Ukraine. Russia is not attacked, but the aggressor, “added Macron from the Elysee Palace with the Ukrainian, French and European flags behind.
“This war is not a conflict between NATO and the West on one side and Russia on the other,” Macron clarified. “Neither France nor Europe nor Ukraine nor the Atlantic Alliance have wanted this war. On the contrary, we have done everything possible to prevent it,” Macron added, noting that it was Putin who decided to unilaterally attack Ukraine and invade that country.
insult to ancestors
“This war is even less, as unsustainable propaganda suggests, a fight against Nazism. It is a lie, an insult to the history of Russia and Ukraine, to the memory of our ancestors who fought alongside each other against Nazism,” said the president, who considers that this war “is the fruit of a spirit of revenge.” born of a revisionist reading of the history of Europe».
Macron, who defended the sanctions against Russia announced by the United States and the European Union, was willing to welcome Ukrainian refugees fleeing the conflict in France. And he announced “a resilience plan” to protect the French economy from the economic and social consequences of this crisis.
European leaders will meet on March 10 and 11 in Versailles to discuss, among other issues, the war in Ukraine, energy independence and European defense. Europe must become a power. Economic power. Energy power. Power of peace,” Macron wrote on Twitter.
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