Europeans will have to strengthen their collective security and become more autonomous. With this opinion, French President Emmanuel Macron shared the X network after a telephone conversation with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky.

Macron assures that France will fully play its role in accelerating this process. Regarding the peaceful settlement in Ukraine, the French leader noted that if US President Donald Trump can really convince President Putin to stop aggression against Ukraine, then Ukrainians are the only ones who can negotiate a strong and long world.

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President Zelensky thanked his French colleague for committing a commitment to the principle of “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine” and all efforts for the sake of our common security in the future. This was reported by the official telegram channel of the President of Ukraine.

Vladimir Zelensky noted that Ukraine and France have the same vision of what the fair end of the war should be.

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Earlier it was reported that US President Donald Trump announced his intention to immediately start negotiations with the head of the Kremlin Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine.