The ongoing human drama in Ukraine is far from over.

And for Jean-Yves Le Drian, “it is possible that the worst is ahead of us”.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, questioned on France 2 about the Ukrainian cities surrounded by the Russian army, summoned his memory and his experience.

"We can fear a siege logic", to which "the Russians are used", he warned, before launching "remember Aleppo, Grozny".

In recent decades, these two cities in Syria and Chechnya have been destroyed by Russian bombs.

"The war is causing hundreds of deaths, also on the Russian side", recalls Jean-Yves Le Drian, while his American counterpart Antony Blinken already described on Wednesday as "amazing" the human toll of the Russian invasion, in which the targets destroyed "are not military targets".

The head of French diplomacy again called for a Russian ceasefire, prior to any negotiation, while a second round of talks between Russia and Ukraine is to be held Thursday in Belarus.

“They call it talks.

These are not negotiations.

You don't negotiate with a gun to your head.

So it is imperative to impose a ceasefire, ”he insisted, in a formulation taken up a little later by government spokesman Gabriel Attal.

Russian President Vladimir Putin wants "the denial of Ukraine and the denial of a democratic country at its doorstep", also affirmed the French Minister of Foreign Affairs.

“That's the logic.

The story of Donbass and the two republics of Donetsk and Lugansk which we were talking about a few days ago was an alibi, it was a pretext, he explained.

Putin's will is to avoid having democratic models on his doorstep that could eventually influence the development of Russia.

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