French president Emmanuel Macron was in Kiev on Tuesday in the latest round of diplomatic talks aimed at avoiding war in Ukraine and said Russia’s president Vladimir Putin had told him 24 hours earlier that Moscow would not further escalate the Ukraine crisis.
Mr Macron’s remarks came as the Kremlin denied reports that he and Mr Putin had struck a deal on de-escalating the crisis. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that “in the current situation, Moscow and Paris can’t be reaching any deals”.
