Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a telephone conversation on Sunday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.amid growing tensions around Ukraine, the Kremlin announced on Saturday.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained that the call “is on President Putin’s agenda for Sunday.”
On Friday night, the French presidency announced this call aimed at “avoiding the worst” in Ukraine.
Emmanuel Macron also plans to speak this Saturday with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
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The Ukrainian president maintains his trip to the Munich conference this Saturday
Stay completely under control
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky maintains his planned trip this Saturday to the conference of Munichin Germany, his cabinet said, despite fears of a Russian attack.
The situation in the east of the country “remains completely under control,” the Ukrainian presidency said, adding that Zelensky’s plans have not changed.
(Read more: Ukraine accuses pro-Russian troops of bombing a kindergarten in Crimea).
the american president Joe Biden he had wondered the day before if it was right for Zelensky to leave the Ukraine under the current circumstances.
The Ukrainian president will meet on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference (southern Germany) with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and US Vice President Kamala Harris, according to his office.
“Volodimir Zelensky hopes to finalize agreements to send our country more military and financial support,” his office explained, adding that he will return to Kiev on Sunday.
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