French President Emmanuel Macron has emphasised the need for Ukraine and Europe to participate in the future peaceful settlement of full-scale Russian aggression. Source: Macron on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda Details: Macron said that he had a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy,

French President Emmanuel Macron said Ukraine's future cannot be decided without Ukrainians. Macron said he had another conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He also spoke with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Ukraine and the EU have pushed back on proposals that they view as ceding too much to Putin, whose troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Russia justifies the war on the grounds of what it calls threats to its security from a Ukrainian pivot towards the West.