French President Emmanuel Macron. Archival photoPARIS, June 4. French President Emmanuel Macron, in an interview with the Ouest France newspaper, said that he was opposed to the humiliation of Russia, because the day would come when cooperation with the state would have to be resumed. the day when the hostilities stop, we could find a way out with the help of diplomacy,» Macron emphasized. The French leader added that he did not hide the fact of negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and maintained contact with him at the request of the head of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky. Russia since 24 February conducts a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to harassment and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» France ridiculed Macron and Scholz after their requests to Putin
