In an interview published in the Italian press on Monday, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky says French President Emmanuel Macron is wasting his time trying to establish a dialogue with Russia's Vladimir Putin, who is lost in "the dream of rebuilding the former soviet empire".
In a French Sunday newspaper, Emmanuel Macron said that it was essential to defeat Russia in the Ukraine war, but without humiliating Moscow. To that end, the French president proposed negotiating with Vladimir Putin.
