Paris: France’s goal is for Russia not to win.
The French Minister for European Affairs said that Paris’s goal was that Russia would not win and that Ukraine would be liberated.
Paris’s goal is that Russia will not win and that Ukraine will be liberated, said French Foreign Minister Clement Boone.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin is behind the war and is to blame,” he said.
“We are helping Ukraine without being in a state of war, and the Ukrainians did not cause this war and are trying to liberate their country from the country it has occupied,” the French official added.
“We support Ukraine not only because of its conscientious objection, but also because if Europe does not do so, it is like saying that Russia can do whatever it wants and that this is dangerous for European security,” Boone added.
“Ukraine is Europe, and when you are weak, you can not achieve peace,” said the French Minister for European Affairs.
On Saturday, Mikhail Podoliak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, described Western demands for an immediate ceasefire, including the stay of Russian forces in the occupied territories of southern and eastern Ukraine, as “very strange” and rejected them.
“(Russian) forces must leave the country, after which it will be possible to continue the peace talks,” Podoliak said. “Because the fire will be in the Kremlin’s favor.”
“They want to establish some kind of military success,” he added. With the help of our Western partners, there will certainly be no military success. It is good if the European and American elites understand to the end; Russia can not be left halfway, because they will develop a spirit of revenge and become even more oppressive. They must fail, they must be affected. Painful failure, as painful as possible
