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French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that Russia's invasion of Ukraine has given the Atlantic Alliance an "electric shock" and provided it with

a new "strategic clarity"

that it lacked.

In an intervention before the press on the occasion of the

launch of his campaign to be re-elected president

, Macron thus responded to a question about whether he regretted describing NATO as "brain dead" two years ago.

The French president has stated that the situation at the end of 2019, when he made these statements, was different from today and has declared that the Alliance is essential to face the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to Reuters.

As he has revealed, he plans to speak with both the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and the Ukrainian, Volodimir Zelenski, in the next few hours.

He has even said that he does not rule out taking the example of other European leaders and traveling to kyiv, although he specified that the visit should come at the right time to be useful in resolving the conflict.

The candidate to prolong his term in the Elysee has warned that the war between Russia and Ukraine will possibly lead to a

food crisis

in the next 12-18 months in Africa and the Middle East, since both countries are two of the main agricultural producers in the world. world.

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