The French president reiterated his support for Kyiv, but declined to call Russia a “terrorist sponsor.”
Russia must not and will not win the war against Ukraine, said French President Emanuel Macron, and pledged to maintain both sanctions against Moscow and support for Ukraine, “for as long as necessary and with required intensity “.
Shortly before leaving Schloss Elmau in Upper Bavaria, where the G7 summit was held, Mr Macron reiterated his support for Kyiv, but refused to call Russia a “terrorist state”.
“We do not need labels to impose sanctions on Moscow,” the French president said, responding indirectly to a request from the Ukrainian president. Volodymyr Zelenskyafter the Russian rocket attack on a shopping center in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, in which 20 people lost their lives.
The attack “is further evidence that the Russian military has decided to use surprise to attack civilians,” Mr Macron said, adding that France and its allies would continue to work to “condemn those who should be condemned by international and Ukrainian justice “.
Emanuel Macron, as earlier as the chancellor Olaf Soltshe said he did not see the end of the war, but wished the conflict would end before the end of the year and spoke of the need to prevent a global crisis due to inflation and the slowdown in the economy.
“It is necessary to take into account the direct and indirect consequences of the war, first of all to help people live and definitely to prevent the division of the world.
“Russia, in its attempt to destabilize the world order, is taking advantage of the consequences of the war to make some states doubt it,” the French president warned.
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