The French president feels the Russian leader. Among the themes of the conversation, the Middle Eastern conflict, the Iranian nuclear program and the war in Ukraine. Here’s what they said.
After a diplomatic “fasting” that lasted almost three years, today the Kremlin has made it known that Vladimir Putin He had a telephone conversation with the French president Emmanuel Macron. This is the first direct contact between the two from the distant September 2022, Macron had made it known that he would hear the Russian president again “when the appropriate time will be”.
Moment that the short Israeli-Iranian war seems to have provided. According to the Kremlin report, in fact, “The two discussed the conflict between Iran and Israel, as well as recent US attacks on Iranian nuclear plants». According to Moscow, “the importance of respecting Tehran’s legitimate right to develop the peaceful atom and its fulfillment of the obligations set out in the treatise on nuclear non -proliferation has been underlined”.
The theme of the war in Ukraine could certainly not be missing, where Putin said that “for many years the western states have ignored the interests of Russia in the field of security and condemned the violations of the rights of the Russian language residents”. Regarding the negotiation to end the conflict, Putin has again reiterated Moscow’s conditions: “The fundamental approaches to the possible agreements should be complete, in the long term and face the deep causes of the Ukrainian crisis, based on the new territorial realities”
Even the Elisha, he published his report, stating that Macron “underlined the unshakable support of France to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, asked to establish a ceased as soon as possible and to start negotiations between Ukraine and Russia to find a solid and lasting solution to the conflict”. The note ends by underlining that “the two presidents will continue to talk about this theme”.
Without a doubt the negotiations seem to be at a dead point at the moment, and the fact that the two presidents have done nothing but repeat their positions testifies to him. Requests of Russia and Europe are currently irreconcilable, Moscow continues to ask Ukraine’s absolute neutralitythe reduction of its armed forces and the formal recognition of the attached territories, The latter instead refuses all these conditions. Despite this, the Kremlin makes it known that “the conversation between Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron was substantial”.
However, today the special envoy of the American president also spoke today Keith Kellogg. According to the former general “Russia cannot continue to take time while bombing civil objectives in Ukraine”, but should work on a “immediate fire and a start of trilateral interviews to end the war”.
Responding in the afternoon to Kellogg’s statements, the spokesman for the Russian president Dmitri Peskov He told the Interfax agency: “We are naturally interested, first of all, in achieving the objectives of the special military operation with political and diplomatic means. Therefore, we are not interested in delaying anything ».
Certainly in the last period American attention seems to have focused on other dossiers, however, it is not at all to be excluded that this is a precise political calculation, aimed at “downloading” the weight of the war on European allies, while America deals with geopolitical contingencies much more important for her, such as the Middle East and Indo-Pacific.
On the battlefield, after the gigantic Russian raid a few days ago, this Night Kiev has launched several British -made Storm Shadow cruise missiles against Donetsk. The Moscow Ministry of Defense said in the morning that she had killed 60 drones and 3 missiles.
However, at least two impacts were recorded, one in Donetsk, where a missile hit the area of the Sokol market, killing a woman and injuring two people. A Ukrainian drone instead managed to overcome the Russian aerial defenses and to hit an industrial company linked to the production of drones a Izhevskmore than 1500 kilometers from the border. However effective, the small explosive head of the drone can hardly have caused important damage. Moscow replied with Raid on Dnipro and Zaporizhzia, where even deaths and injured were also recorded.
