Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a press conference after talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in KievKYIV, Feb 8 . President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said at a briefing after talks with French leader Emmanuel Macron that he does not yet know a «subject» in Europe that could put pressure on Russia. On Monday, Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin held five-hour talks in Moscow . On Tuesday, the French leader met Zelensky in Kiev. Macron will arrive in Berlin on Tuesday evening, where he will hold talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Polish President Andrzej Duda. it’s just pressure, I don’t know an entity in Europe today that could put pressure on the Russian Federation very powerfully. At a minimum, the de-occupation of our country is not happening yet,» Zelensky said at a briefing. Plans attributed to Russia to escalate the situation around Ukraine in Moscow is categorically denied and constantly told that no one is being threatened, and all such statements are used as an excuse to deploy more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier, Russia does not create any pretexts for a conflict situation around Ukraine. According to him, Russia does not rule out that the hysteria around Ukraine, hyped by the West, is aimed at covering Kiev's line of sabotaging the Minsk agreements on Donbass. According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, the information hysteria of the USA and NATO on Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes.
