French President Emmanuel Macron bids fair to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow this afternoon in an endeavour to calm tensions on the Ukrainian border.
The standoff with Russia over Ukraine entered a critical phase this week. Moscow has readied still more forces on the Ukraine border. Diplomatic ways are being explored and the techniques of potential solutions, still undeveloped is likely to happen.
The United States has splintered NATO to alert and depute the forces east. “The priority for me on the Ukrainian question in dialogue with Russia and de-escalation. I’m very worried by the situation on the ground,” Macron told reporters in France.
Russia has refused planning to invade Ukraine but has tens of thousands of troops near its neighbour’s borders, exhorting the US to order about 3,000 extra troops to bolster Nato’s eastern flank in Poland and Romania.
President Biden is set to meet Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and President Emmanuel Macron of France today at the same time will visit his Russian counterpart, Vladimir V. Putin, in Moscow before travelling to Kyiv.
Macron will land in Moscow on Monday striving for a “de-escalation” of the tenses swirling on Ukraine’s eastern borders after talks with US president Joe Biden after a burst of diplomatic activity that included talks this weekend and three phone calls with Putin.
Furthermore, France is expected to give a thought to Mr Putin’s demands, which include pushing NATO back out of formerly Soviet-controlled countries and creating permanent resentments with Russia even as it secured freedom for 100 million central Europeans.
Such a force would be capable competent of taking the capital Kyiv in a matter of 48 hours in an onslaught that would kill up to 50,000 civilians, 25,000 Ukrainian soldiers and 10,000 Russian troops and activate a refugee flood of up to five million people, mainly into Poland, the officials added.
The White House said the two leaders discussed “ongoing diplomatic and deterrence efforts in answer to Russia’s persistent military build-up on Ukraine’s borders”.
