French President Emmanuel Macron has the right and can continue talking with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but this will not bring results, and the best platform for talking with the head of the Kremlin is the battlefield, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said in an interview with the French edition of Le Journal du dimanche.
“It is the right of President Macron to decide with whom he speaks.. But experience shows that the best platform for talking with Putin is the battlefield.. Putin, you can always call him, it will not bring results. It is useless because he is a liar, and I think that Emmanuel Macron knows this,” the Foreign Minister said in response to a journalist’s question about his attitude to frequent telephone conversations between the presidents of France and the Russian Federation..
Kuleba recalled that Macron made every effort before the war to prevent this conflict, but it did not work..
“Not a single indicator indicates that Putin has changed his mind or is ready for negotiations,” the minister added..
At the same time, he expressed confidence that any war ends with diplomacy, but it all depends on what position to start negotiations from..
“We want to sit down at the negotiating table in the position of a winner. And this is decided on the battlefield,"
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