French President Emmanuel Macron assured this Friday that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, made a “historical and fundamental mistake” in Ukraine and that he is “isolated.”
“I think, and I have told him, that he made a historic and fundamental mistake for his people, for himself and for history,” Macron said in an interview with the press.
He assured that Russia “remains a great people”, but that Putin “has isolated himself”. “Isolating yourself is one thing, but getting out of it is a difficult path,” she added.
The Russian offensive in Ukraine turned one hundred days on Friday. The French president, whose country holds the presidency pro tempore of the European Union (EU), is under pressure to travel to kyiv.
«I traveled in February to try to avoid the war. Currently, I do not exclude anything,” said Macron, whom the Ukrainian Defense Minister, Dmitro Kuleba, urged to go before the end of June.
After the failure of a blitzkrieg and its assault on kyiv, the Russian army is now concentrating on the Donbas region, partly controlled by pro-Russian separatists since 2014.
