Emmanuel Macron will have “direct contact” with Vladimir Putin “in the coming days”

Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday that he would have “direct contact” with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “in the coming days”. “I expect to have direct contact with him in the coming days on civil nuclear matters first and foremost and the Zaporozhye power plant, after an exchange” with the director general of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, said the French president to the press during a visit to the Salon des Maires at the Parc des Expositions in Paris.

“The Russian strategy is to despair the people on the ground, he still assured. Our elected officials also have a role to play. And to recall that France would host a conference in Paris on December 13 “for Ukrainian resistance and resilience”.