As we write these lines, Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelensky’s press conference is being broadcast on the screens. Although it is still too early for the Ukrainian media to comment on the event, they have already extensively covered the visit of the French president, in the company of the German chancellor and the Italian president of the Council.
Beware of compromise
As early as June 14, the Russian opponent Boris Sokolov noted in a sour tone in the daily The what “until now, since the beginning of the Russian invasion, none of the three had found the time to come to kyiv”.
“We can welcome the fact that the French, German and Italian leaders have come to express their support for Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression”, he conceded, before warning:
“The Ukrainian government must take into account that it is these three countries which, little by little, are trying to promote a plan for a peaceful settlement through a compromise involving a ceasefire in exchange for the preservation of Russian control s