Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel MacronMOSCOW, April 1Vladimir Zelensky said that he discussed with French President Emmanuel Macron the negotiation process with the Russian Federation and the issue of providing security guarantees to Ukraine. Earlier, a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the negotiations with the Russian Federation, David Arakhamia, said that Kyiv was proposing a new system of security guarantees for Ukraine. According to him, Kyiv sees the UN Security Council countries, as well as Turkey, Germany, Canada, Italy, Poland and Israel as guarantors of security.Ukraine signed an agreement with France on a loan «Continued negotiations with President Emmanuel Macron … We discussed the negotiation process — its course and prospects, the importance of security guarantees,» Zelensky wrote on Twitter on Friday. Zelensky also wrote that France's proposal on humanitarian corridors from Mariupol Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said earlier that at the personal request of French President Emmanuel Macron and German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Russian military will once again open a humanitarian corridor from April 1 from Mariupol in Zaporozhye.
France predicted the global consequences of a special operation in UkraineRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine 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 Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
