French President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Thursday September 1 to continue France's humanitarian, economic and military support for Ukraine and strengthen European unity to put pressure on Russia to prevent it from winning the war in that country, AP NEWS reported..

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He set the goal of helping Ukraine either win a military victory or be in a strong position to achieve "

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Macron said France strongly supports the mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which arrived on Thursday at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant to assess its safety.. The French president suggested that he would call his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin after the completion of the IAEA mission.

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“We must not allow Europe to split” over the war in Ukraine and its consequences, Macron said, adding that the EU should not join the “warmongers” or allow Eastern European countries to act alone in support of Kyiv.

In a nearly two-hour speech meant to outline the goals of French diplomacy for the coming year, Macron praised the views expressed by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz earlier this week in Prague as "

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Macron called on Europe to " He also urged French diplomats to take a more active stand against disinformation, fake news and propaganda spread on social media..

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