French President Emmanuel Macron spoke on Monday with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, against a background of persistent “threats” to the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, bombed again this weekend.
“I was with President Zelensky for an urgent appeal,” said the French head of state during a speech in Paris at the international conference in support of Moldova, a collateral victim of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A still “very difficult” context
He explained this call by “the context that continues to be very difficult”, with “the bombardments that Ukraine is still suffering from, the threats that weigh on the Zaporijjia plant”.
“With each military victory of Ukraine, the recapture of the Kharkiv region as well as the recapture of Kherson, Russia reacts with new bombardments of Ukraine’s essential infrastructure,” he lamented.
A previous interview with the head of the IAEA
Emmanuel Macron spoke this Sunday with the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, about the situation of the Zaporizhia power plant in Ukraine, which Moscow and Kyiv accuse each other of having bombed.
The Élysée had specified then that the French president would meet quietly with his Ukrainian counterpart.
Source: BFM TV
