“In the next 8-10 days we will enact the pressure on the Russia“, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview published in Paris Match magazine, estimating that”convinced Americans of the possibility of escalating threats and possibly sanctions»At the expense of Moscow.

“The next fortnight will be decisive in trying to achieve this truce » The US wants, Ukraine accepts and supported by Europeans, but Russia has not yet signed, the French president insisted after the Trump-Chalenski meeting on Saturday in the Vatican.

Emmanuel Macron said he had spoken to the US president “Wednesday night to Thursday, urging him to adopt a stricter line“To their Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

Although ‘No meeting was scheduled with President Trump“At the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome, they finally spoke” for a few minutes “. “I told him repeatedly: We must be much stricter with the Russians“, Macron said.

“We have to be ready, along with Americans, to harden our attitude towards Russia to achieve this ceasefire of fire“, The president of France underlined. “I think we will be able, thanks to this meeting in the Vatican, to re -exert pressure on Russia. This was the desired goal because it was not right to apply pressure only to Ukraine“, He continued.

Next week includes two meetings that will highlight Emmanuel Macron’s European strategy. On May 7 he will welcome the future Chancellor Friedrich Mertz, on his first visit to Paris as head of the German government. On May 9 he will meet Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Nancy to sign a “friendship agreement” between France and Poland.