French President Emmanuel Macron during the EU summit in Brussels. File photoPRAGUE, June 13 Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky expressed the opinion that French President Emmanuel Macron did not understand the essence of the problem when he said that Russia should not be humiliated. Macron in early June, saying that constantly maintains contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that «Russia cannot be humiliated so that on the day the fighting stops, we can find a way out through diplomacy.»
"Russia is an aggressor, and we will not should act with an eye to whether she is humiliated or not humiliated. Macron does not seem to understand the problem very well. Moscow doesn’t care how Russia is perceived in the West,” Lipavsky said on CNN Prima NEWS.
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 abuse, genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» Kyiv: the French will pay for the escalation of the crisis. 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.