In a telephone conversation, Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the escalation of the situation in southeastern Ukraine, the migration crisis on the border with Belarus and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Putin stressed the need to start talks with NATO to exclude the advance of Alliance troops to the east and their deployment in neighboring countries, including Ukraine, the Kommersant newspaper reported.
"The Russian president stressed the importance of immediately starting international negotiations to develop legally fixed guarantees that exclude any further NATO advance to the east and the deployment of weapons threatening Russia in neighboring countries, mainly Ukraine," the statement said. the official website of the Kremlin. In addition, Putin called on French partners to "understand the concerns expressed and participate in their discussion," the Kremlin's press service said.
The statement noted that the Russian president had given specific examples of Kiev's violation of the Minsk agreements. According to the Russian president, the Ukrainian authorities are deliberately aggravating the situation on the line of contact - with the assistance of a number of Western countries. In addition, Ukraine is being "pumped" with modern weapons, which poses a direct threat to Russia's security, Putin said.
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