War in Ukraine: Macron responds to kyiv asking him to come before the end of June – The HuffPost

Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesEmmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelensky during the French President’s last official visit to Ukraine, February 8, 2022. WAR IN UKRAINE – A visit, “no matter when”, implores kyiv. The day after the first visit to Ukraine by Catherine Colonna, new foreign minister, the head of Ukrainian diplomacy is impatient with the absence of an official visit from Emmanuel Macron. Dmytro Kouleba wished this Tuesday May 31 that the French president, who has not yet visited Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion, visits kyiv before the end of the French presidency of the EU on June 30, in an interview with the French channel LCI. “He is welcome, no matter when. It would be good for Mr. Macron to come during the French EU Presidency, and the best would be for him to come with other arms deliveries for Ukraine, here is the most valuable help we can receive from France,” said Dmytro Kouleba. The day before, Volodymyr Zelensky had already challenged Catherine Colonna on this subject during her visit to the capital of Ukraine. The latter then indicated that a visit was currently under consideration, but only if it was useful for the search for a solution for peace. of the French state on Tuesday, at the very end of a press conference given in Cherbourg. Emmanuel Macron was answering questions from journalists at the Cotentin public hospital center in the early evening, when a journalist asked him to react to this new pressing request for a visit from kyiv. “I always had the same answer”, reacted first the head of state. “The Minister (Catherine Colonna) went there in recent days to mark the commitment of France, which, I remind you, has never closed its embassy in Ukraine. France has been there from the start to try to avoid war, to be at the side of the Ukrainian people and Ukraine”. “In good time, under the right conditions, I would make this trip, but the most important thing is to be there and to make the right decisions and what we are doing”, continued Emmanuel Macron to conclude his speech. The French president, who had gone to Moscow then to kyiv on February 7 and 8 before the Russian invasion on the 24th, has never returned to Ukraine since. He is also one of the only European heads of state to continue to meet regularly with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Several European officials, as well as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, have visited kyiv since the start of the conflict. See also on The HuffPost: Death of a French journalist in Ukraine: “This subject cannot go unpunished”, says Emmanuel Macron