France’s Macron to go to Russia and Ukraine next week: presidency

Author: AFP/APP

Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Moscow and Kyiv to meet his counterparts early next week in an effort to mediate the crisis over Ukraine, his office said on Friday.

Macron will go to Russia on Monday and to Ukraine on Tuesday. Western powers have been engaged in intense diplomatic efforts to try to deter a feared Russian invasion of ex-Soviet Ukraine.

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