Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and French President Emmanuel Macron today held talks in Kiev over rising tensions with Russia amid fears of an invasion
DNYUZ/New York Times: Macron meets Zelensky in Ukraine, as Russia keeps the world guessing.
KYIV, Ukraine — President Emmanuel Macron of France said on Tuesday that the Ukraine crisis could take months to resolve, but that his shuttle diplomacy this week between Russia and Ukraine had raised hopes of stabilizing the situation.
Mr. Macron met President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Kyiv on Tuesday, a day after holding a five-hour meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Moscow.
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that there were “seeds of reason” in proposals Mr. Macron had put forward during the meeting with Mr. Putin.
But Mr. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, rejected reports that the two leaders had reached any sort of agreement on de-escalating the crisis, which Western nations say has been incited by Russia’s buildup around Ukraine of roughly 130,000 troops, many of which appear to be in the final stages of readiness for an invasion.
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