Tuesday, day two of the major diplomatic offensive – Ukraine plans military exercises from February 10th

The Russian President At a meeting with his French colleague Emmanuel Macron, Vladimir Putin called on Ukraine to implement the peace plan for Donbasst. The Minsk agreements have so far been ignored by the Ukrainian leadership, Putin said on Tuesday (local time) after several hours of talks with Macron in Moscow. The Kremlin chief also accused Kiev of human rights abuses, including the repression of native Russian speakers, a ban on the media and crackdown on opposition figures.

Putin asked Macron to address these issues at his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv this Tuesday. Macron will then travel to Berlin for talks with Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), who will then be back from the USA.

Putin criticized the West for using the tensions in Ukraine for an anti-Russian policy. Russia has been criticized for moving its troops on its own territory while the Ukrainian army is being financed and supplied with weapons from abroad, the Kremlin chief said. The 69-year-old once again campaigned for a new policy in Europe in which the security of one country would not be implemented at the expense of another.


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