The French international ministry didn’t instantly reply to POLITICO’s request for remark.
France says it’s persevering with to “step up assist for Ukraine … in order that Ukraine can look to the long run within the strongest and most favorable potential state of affairs,” a ministry spokesperson mentioned Monday.
In his diplomatic hit-job on Paris, Lavrov blasted what he described as France’s “ambiguous” perspective. He took specific intention at French President Emmanuel Macron’s initiative to arrange a postwar peacekeeping pressure in Ukraine.
“Such ambiguous conduct doesn’t create a want to take severely what is going on on the initiative of our French colleagues,” Lavrov mentioned.
Final month, Macron commented on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s cellphone name along with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin by stating that “taking initiatives” was “at all times optimistic” however that “it doesn’t matter what he says, [Putin] doesn’t need peace and isn’t prepared to barter.”
Macron mentioned he didn’t rule out beginning a brand new dialogue with Putin — certainly he was the world chief who went out on a limb in an unsuccessful try to stop a battle three years in the past — however solely “when the context and situations are applicable.”
