French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen. File photoPARIS, Jun 7 Former French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen agrees with French leader Emmanuel Macron that Russia should not be humiliated and that it is necessary to continue dialogue with it on Ukraine.»Yes And I don’t understand why President Zelensky reproaches him for this, because the Ukrainian president himself said that the only way out is a diplomatic solution to the conflict … The President of the Republic (Emmanuel Macron — ed.) is right that he is trying to stop war,» Le Pen said on the France Info radio station in response to a question about whether she agreed with Macron that Russia should not be humiliated. Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron said that Russia should not be humiliated, as the day will come when military actions will stop, and countries will be able to «find a way through diplomacy.» He also said that he spent about 100 hours on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the situation in Ukraine. Russia 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 Kyiv 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.
