“At one point, you must request an answer.” The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said Friday, May 16 in front of Tirana press in Albania this Friday, that Europeans “continue to prepare new sanctions in coordination with the United States” against Russia. The western criticize Moscow for having left the proposal of a high fire without a response in Ukraine at the end of the direct conversations that were held this Friday in Turkey between a Ukrainian and Russian delegation.
“Our own security is played in Ukraine,” said the head of state. “So we continue to support the unconditional fire of thirty days.”
Emmanuel Macron repeated that it was “unacceptable” that Russia “rejects” this high fire and “rejects a high -level response.”
“If the response to the high fire remains negative, it will be necessary to have an answer, establish a notch in the sanctions,” he added specifying that these sanctions “are working.”
Trump is expected to meet Putin soon, according to Macron
The French leaders, the German Friedrich Merz, the British Starmer Keir, the Polish Donald Tusk and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, called Donald Trump this Friday “to coordinate his response to the elections that the Russians are made.”
According to Emmanuel Macron, the US president should speak for these “next days” or these “next hours” with Vladimir Putin. “I think they will be telephone contacts first,” he said.
Elysée’s tenant deplored that Vladimir Putin refused to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Istanbul in Türkiye.
At the end of the Russian-Ukrainian conversations, the Russian chief negotiator Vladimir Medinski said he was “satisfied” and ready to continue with the contacts “with kyiv. The Ukrainian part accused Moscow of having made” unacceptable “territorial requests. However, the Ukrainians and the Russians announced that they agree on a” massive “mass exchange of prisoners, as Vladimir Medinski explain, “at a rate of 1,000 against 1,000”, and this “in the next few days.”
Source: BFM TV
