Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin have been long maintained by phone, Monday, November 15, without being able to agree on the Ukrainian forehead.
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Litigation can hide another one. The phone call between Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron, Monday, November 15, of course focused on the Polono-Belarusian border. But he also worn on the Ukrainian forehead. If Mr. Macron and Mr. Putin have, for nearly two hours, examined the ways of “deascalade” in the crisis of migrants, repulsed by the Lukashenko regime towards Poland, they were unable to send the less signal of appeasement about Ukraine. On the contrary: after the important Russian maneuvers on the Russian-Ukrainian border, who had worried Westerners in the spring, they are again alerted.
So, Mr. Macron, like the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel last week, he warned Mr. Putin against any new intrusion into Ukrainian territory, seven years after the unilateral annexation of the Crimea by Russia. He told him, according to the Elysée, his “strong concern” and his “willingness to defend the entire territorial” of the country, in a formula a non-incantatory. For its part, according to a Kremlin communiqué, Mr. Putin accused Kiev to carry out a “destructive policy”. He denounced the “recent use, by Ukraine, drones in the conflict zone”. A reference for the use of Turkish manufacturing equipment, acquired recently by Kiev.
“Degradation of the situation”
At the same time, the French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, and his German counterpart, Heiko Maas, hammered the message in a common statement: “Faced with renewed concerns related to movement of forces and materials Russian military near Ukraine, the two ministers called Russia to adopt a retaining posture and to be transparent about its military activities, “they declared, after hearing the head of the Ukrainian diplomacy. , Dmyro Kouleba, on the sidelines of a meeting with their counterparts of the twenty-seven in Brussels.
The situation at the border is followed as far as the conflictality remains strong in the separatist regions of Donbass, in the east of the country. “We have a deterioration of the security situation for eighteen months, as respect of the cease-fire of December 2019”, entrusts a diplomat that it is always a “conflict of low but actual intensity “.
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