French President Emmanuel Macron. File photoPARIS, Apr 6 French President Emmanuel Macron said he felt it necessary to continue to engage in dialogue with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. «I take full responsibility for constantly speaking with President Putin on behalf of France. <…> I have always made efforts to talk with Russia. I have constantly engaged in dialogue in order to achieve a ceasefire,» Macron said on TF1, commenting on the reproaches against him from the head of the Polish government Mateusz Morawiecki for regular calls 
France says Macron is using the Ukrainian crisis to his advantageRussia 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, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
