Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel MacronPARIS, Mar 6 French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, he had a telephone conversation with Vladimir Zelensky, the parties discussed, among other things, the provision of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, Reuters reports. According to him, the French leader also told his Ukrainian counterpart about the content of his conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin press service earlier reported that Putin told Macron that the Russian Armed Forces and the Ukrainian security unit with personnel continue to ensure the functioning of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. The Russian leader also noted that he was not against a meeting in the IAEA-Russia-Ukraine format, but not in Chernobyl, but in the format of a videoconference or in a third country. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early in the morning on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian President emphasized.
