Europe 1 with AFP 3:36 p.m., March 23, 2022

Faced with French deputies and senators, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday urged French companies established in Russia to stop supporting the Russian "war machine" and to leave this country, citing Renault, Auchan and Leroy Merlin.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday urged French companies established in Russia to stop supporting the Russian "war machine" and to leave this country, citing Renault, Auchan and Leroy Merlin.

"French companies must leave the Russian market. Renault, Auchan, Leroy Merlin and others, they must stop being sponsors of Russia's war machine", he declared in a speech broadcast by videoconference before French deputies and senators.

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