French President Emmanuel Macron was due to speak on the phone Tuesday midday with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of Ukraine, the Elysee Palace announced, their first exchange since March 29.

Two months after the Russian invasion

This call comes following the telephone discussion that the French head of state had on Saturday with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, more than two months after the invasion of his country by the Russian army.

The French and Russian presidents, who had spoken many times – nearly 20 times since December 2021, including eight times since the start of the war on February 24 – have not spoken since the discovery of the Boutcha massacre at the start of the war. april.

Describing as "unbearable" the images of the many corpses discovered in this city north-west of kyiv after the withdrawal of the army from Moscow, Emmanuel Macron had affirmed that the Russian authorities should "answer for these crimes".

A last call on March 29

A few days earlier, on March 29, he had discussed with his Russian counterpart the establishment of an evacuation operation for the inhabitants of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, besieged by the Russian army.

At the end of the exchange, he had indicated that the conditions were “not met”.

On April 25, Vladimir Putin had sent his congratulations to Emmanuel Macron re-elected the day before, wishing him "success" for his new mandate and "good health".

The French president has repeatedly explained that he called the strongman of the Kremlin with the prior consent of Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he had gone to see in kyiv after his meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow on February 7 to try to avoid the 'invasion.

A call with Zelensky this Saturday

During his exchange with Zelensky on Saturday, the French president announced that France would "reinforce" the shipment of military equipment to Ukraine as well as its humanitarian aid, which so far amounts to "more than 615 tonnes of equipment shipped" to this country.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will address the Ukrainian Parliament by videoconference on Tuesday, a first for a Western leader since the start of the Russian invasion, and announce 300 million pounds of additional military aid to kyiv.

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