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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Ukraine Crisis: According To Emmanuel Macron, Vladimir Putin Wants To Avoid "Escalation"

There will be “neither a deterioration nor an escalation”: the French president claims to have received this assurance from the Russian head of state.

According to French President Emmanuel Macron, Russia's head of state Vladimir Putin has pledged to refrain from further escalation in the Ukraine conflict.

During his talks with Putin on Monday, he received assurances from him that "there would be no deterioration or escalation," Macron said shortly before his arrival in Kiev, where he will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The Reuters news agency quoted a French government official as saying that Putin had promised not to hold any further maneuvers on the Ukrainian border in the foreseeable future. In addition, the Russian troops are to be withdrawn from there after the joint military maneuvers with Belarus.

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Putin himself did not mention these concessions at the press conference after the talks with Macron. His spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed the withdrawal of Russian troops from Belarus - without giving a date - but denied any other commitments. The reports about a waiver of further maneuvers in Ukraine are false, he said. France and Russia have not yet reached an agreement on de-escalating the situation. But de-escalation is necessary. The meeting of the two heads of state laid the basis for this.

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Macron and Putin had discussed for several hours in Moscow . Both sides then emphasized that differences remained and that further talks were necessary. Putin himself did not mention these concessions at the press conference after the talks with Macron. 

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His spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed the withdrawal of Russian troops from Belarus - without giving a date - but denied any other commitments. The reports about a waiver of further maneuvers in Ukraine are false, he said. France and Russia have not yet reached an agreement on de-escalating the situation. But de-escalation is necessary. The meeting of the two heads of state laid the basis for this.

Macron traveled to Moscow on his own initiative, but after lengthy coordination with numerous EU countries and the USA. After his talks with Zelenskyj in Kiev, he is planning a stopover in Berlin to discuss the Ukraine conflict with Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Polish President Andrzej Duda.

According to Western information, Russia has massed more than 100,000 soldiers near the Ukrainian border. This fuels fears that Russia could be preparing an attack on the neighboring country. Russia denies this, but at the same time sees itself threatened by NATO.

The government in Moscow is demanding guarantees that Ukraine will never become a NATO member. In addition, NATO should not station any weapons in Eastern Europe and should withdraw its troops from there. This, in turn, is rejected by the USA and NATO.

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