Live: After Moscow, Emmanuel Macron goes to Kiev to defuse the crisis

Published on : 08/02/2022 – 07:16

• 4:02 a.m .: Emmanuel Macron on his way to Kiev

The French president is on his way to Kiev, where he is due to meet his counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky after meeting Vladimir Putin. Emmanuel Macron will then meet, in Berlin, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, himself just returned from Washington as part of a series of European diplomatic efforts this week and next.

• 12:46 a.m .: Vladimir Putin opens the door to a compromise

After more than five hours of discussion with Emmanuel Macron, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared on Monday that “some of the ideas” of his French counterpart could “lay the foundations for common progress” and must speak again to this last after moving to Kyiv. “President Putin assured me of his readiness to commit to this logic and of his desire to maintain the stability and territorial integrity of Ukraine,” said Emmanuel Macron.