The French leader stated this at a press conference on the sidelines of the XXVII UN Climate Conference in Egypt.

According to Macron, it is Ukraine "must determine the conditions and time" for negotiations.

“But at some point you have to do it.

Now it is premature to talk about some radical conditions, but I am personally convinced that at some point it will be necessary to return to negotiations, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.

Earlier, the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kyiv “did not refuse negotiations” with Moscow.

At the same time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that he did not want to conduct a dialogue with the Russian authorities regarding the settlement of the situation in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that Kyiv refused to negotiate, but Moscow would be open to dialogue if the Ukrainian regime "matured".