Emmanuel Macron sent a message of “solidarity” to Ukrainians on Friday, February 24, after a year of war led by Russia, calling for their “victory” and “peace”. “Ukrainians, Ukrainians, France stands by your side. To solidarity, victory and peace,” the French president tweeted.
Emmanuel Macron had been invited by Kiev to go there around this first anniversary of the Russian invasion, as did American President Joe Biden earlier this week or Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the head of the Spanish government. Pedro Sanchez, said Ukrainian Ambassador to France Omelchenko Vadym. “Unfortunately he couldn’t come,” he said, hoping for a visit “eventually in March.”
Ukrainians, Ukrainians, France stands by your side. To solidarity, to victory and to peace.
King Charles III denounced on Friday the “unnecessary suffering” inflicted on Ukraine due to the “large-scale unprovoked attack” launched by Russia a year ago, exceptionally stepping out of the reserve that impose the British sovereigns. “It has now been a year since the people of Ukraine suffered unimaginably from a large-scale unprovoked attack on their nation,” the ruler, who said in a statement on the first anniversary of the Russian invasion, said received Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, visiting London, on February 8.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said “the free world owes a debt” to Ukrainians who fight “for freedom and democracy”. “Ukraine is not and will not be alone because it also stands for the values ??of freedom and democracy,” she said in a video message. It is on these values ??that “European identity is born”, and they “represent the foundations of international law, without which only military force would count and every state in the whole world would risk being invaded by its neighbour”, a- she continued.
Vladimir Putin “will not achieve his imperialist goals” in Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Friday. “The sooner the Russian president realizes that he will not achieve his imperialist goals, the greater the chances of an early end to the war,” he said. According to him, Putin has the ability to “end this war”. The Kremlin master “did not fulfill a single one” of his goals in Ukraine, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Having failed to “wipe Ukraine off the map, he is faced with a nation more vigorous than ever,” said the boss of the European executive.
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