While tens of thousands of Russian soldiers are still camped on the border with Ukraine, France is playing the diplomacy card to try to get out of this dangerous trap. Emmanuel Macron talks, Monday, February 7, with Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin (Russia). What can we expect from this face-to-face?
A greeting in French and a smile from Vladimir Poutine to welcome Emmanuel Macron, Monday, February 7 in the afternoon. The exchanges then begin at a good distance, on either side of a long table, in the salons of the Kremlin. (Russia). “I see how much effort the French president is making to resolve the crisis”said the Russian president. AT Moscow, will Macron succeed in lowering the tension which, for several months, rule on the eastern borders of Ukraine?
vladimir Putin, who fears that Kiev don’t join theNATO, done weigh on the country the risk of an invasion and massed a hundred tanks and 125,000 men on the border. Before the meeting, Emmanuel Macron confided that he did not expect Vladimir Putin to back down anytime soon. For Marie Dumoulin, specialist in the Russian world, this meeting could nevertheless be a first stone of relaxation on the ground. A de-escalation in which not everyone believes.