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By AFP
04 June 2024 | 6:39 p.m.
French President Emmanuel Macron volition big Ukraine's person Volodymyr Zelensky connected Friday successful Paris for talks connected the war-battered nation's ne
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky (C,L) and France’s President Emmanuel Macron (C,R) upon his accomplishment astatine the Elysee statesmanlike palace successful Paris connected May 14, 2023. – Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)French President Emmanuel Macron volition big Ukraine’s person Volodymyr Zelensky connected Friday successful Paris for talks connected the war-battered nation’s needs, the Elysee Palace announced.
“As Russian strikes intensify connected the beforehand enactment and against vigor infrastructure, the 2 presidents volition sermon the concern connected the ground,” the statesmanlike palace said Tuesday.
The gathering betwixt the 2 leaders is acceptable to instrumentality spot aft D-Day commemorations.
The Ukrainian president, who volition beryllium welcomed by France’s Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu with subject honours connected Friday morning, volition sojourn a tract of the Franco-German arms radical KNDS adjacent Paris.
The defence radical makes artillery guns being utilized successful Ukraine.
Zelensky volition besides present a code successful France’s National Assembly and conscionable with the talker of the little location Yael Braun-Pivet, who visited Ukraine successful March.
News of his code met with disapproval from the opposition, with the person of right-wing Republicans successful parliament, Olivier Marleix, saying it was “inappropriate” to invitation Zelensky to talk conscionable days earlier the upcoming European elections.
Braun-Pivet said the day of his sojourn was “on the juncture of the 80th anniversary” of the D-Day landings.
France hosted a league successful February connected providing enactment for Ukraine, aft which Macron announced measures to supply much weapons to Kyiv and did not regularisation retired sending soldiers to Ukraine — sparking contention among his allies.
Earlier Friday, Moscow’s apical diplomat warned that French subject instructors grooming soldiers successful Ukraine would beryllium a “legitimate target” for Russian strikes, amid reports France could nonstop trainers to the country.
Paris does not officially person subject unit assisting oregon grooming Ukrainian forces successful Ukraine astatine the moment, but Kyiv said past week it was “in talks” with France connected the issue.
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