After a 90-minute phone call with Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron said he will continue the dialogue to prevent 'more human tragedy'. 9News
, following talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.
"Without making a prediction, we should expect the worst is yet to come. The President said so yesterday as well. There is nothing in what Putin said today that should reassure us," the source said.French President Emmanuel Macron held a 90-minute phone call with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the Ukraine conflict.
"Dialogue has to continue to "protect the population, to obtain good will gestures ... to put an end to this war," Macron said.The Russian leader also said that if Kyiv wanted to talk, it must act now - and if Ukrainians don't accept these conditions, he will obtain the same result by the military path, the source said. Mr Putin denied having bombarded Kyiv and warned that the situation would worsen, but that it was the fault of Ukraine, the source said.
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