French President says Russia must accept proposal for 30-day…

Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday (native time) entreated Russia to agree to the US-backed proposal for a 30-day non eternal ceasefire in Ukraine, declaring that “atrocities must quit.” Macron slammed Moscow for its ‘delaying remarks’ on the deal after speaking with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and United Kingdom PM Keir Starmer.

Macron took to X and wrote, “I spoke this day with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and then with Top Minister Kier Starmer following the development made all one of many simplest ways thru the meeting between the US and Ukraine in Jeddah on Tuesday. Russia must now settle for the U.S.-Ukrainian proposal for a 30-day ceasefire. The Russian aggression in Ukraine must cease. The atrocities must quit. So must the delaying statements.”

The French President pledged his country’s assist to Kyiv to construct peace.

“The next day, we are able to proceed working to red meat up assist for Ukraine and to construct a solid and lasting peace, in a videoconference with Top Minister Starmer, President Zelensky, and all our partners,” he added.

Meanwhile, Zelenskyy stated he instructed Macron in regards to the outcomes of the meeting between the Ukrainian and American delegations in Saudi Arabia. He reiterated Ukraine’s assist for the US proposal for a 30-day period in-between ceasefire. Furthermore, he cautioned against trusting Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“I shared the results of the meeting (with Macron) between the Ukrainian and American teams in Saudi Arabia. It turn out to be once a truly positive dialogue, all one of many simplest ways thru which Ukraine supported the U.S. proposal for an unconditional 30-day plump period in-between ceasefire. Now we explore how Russia is making an try to position of living prerequisites for an unconditional ceasefire and desires to originate the route of shaky. Putin can not be trusted. His response already reveals that Moscow does no longer want peace or an cease to the war,” Zelenskyy acknowledged.

Earlier, US President Trump stated that he had “good and productive discussions” with Russian President Vladimir Putin, highlighting Russia-Ukraine battle may per chance “at final advance to an cease.”

Then again, on Thursday, Putin solid doubt on the US-brokered ceasefire proposal for the Ukraine war, imposing strict prerequisites and annoying concessions from Kyiv, irrespective of expressing theoretical assist for a truce, CNN reported.

“We accept as true with the proposal to quit hostilities but we now prefer to undergo in mind that this ceasefire ought to be aimed at a protracted-lasting peace and it must take a look on the root causes of the crisis,” Putin acknowledged at a news convention – repeating the Kremlin’s previous claims that basically the hottest Ukrainian authorities is a component of the underlying arena, as per CNN.

(With ANI Inputs)