Zelensky at the Cannes Film Festival: “The dictator will lose”

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, made a surprise speech at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival. “I am convinced that the dictator will lose,” Zelensky said in a video link from Kiev referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Read also In the afternoon, the Ukrainian president had a telephone conversation with his French counterpart Macron. The “rescue” of Ukrainian soldiers from the Azovstal steel plant, the prospects of the negotiation process and the situation on the ground were among the topics of a “long and meaningful” telephone conversation, the Ukrainian leader said on Twitter, explaining that the question of fuel supply in Ukraine was raised during the call.