French President Emmanuel Macron is in Moscow on Monday for crunch talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, who has massed some 135,000 troops along Ukraine’s border, with the US and NATO warning of an imminent invasion.
Macron told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper on Sunday that he wanted to “build a historic solution” to the problem of European security.
Macron has made an intense diplomatic effort over the last week to find a solution to stop a major escalation of the eight-year-old Russia-Ukraine conflict.
He is due in Kyiv on Tuesday.
It is unclear how realistic Macron’s chances are of satisfying both Kyiv and especially Moscow, which has demanded NATO bar Ukraine from becoming a member, and that it reduces its military forces in eastern Europe, something which Kyiv and Western capitals have flatly rejected.
