Emmanuel Macron is organizing a meeting in support of Ukraine on Monday in Paris with leaders of other countries. The country finds itself in a difficult situation, the Russian army has regained ground in recent weeks. Ukraine is suffering on the ground from the blocking of American aid in Congress.
French President Emmanuel Macron is organizing a meeting in support of Ukraine on Monday in Paris with leaders of other countries, two years after the start of the Russian offensive, the Élysée announced on Thursday. It will bring together “several heads of state and government or their ministerial representatives, for a meeting in support of Ukraine”, indicated the French presidency.
Ukraine is in an “extremely difficult” position
“This working meeting will make it possible to study the means available to strengthen the cooperation of partners in support of Ukraine,” she added without further details. Polish President Andrzej Duda announced on the Polsat channel that his French counterpart had invited “a whole series of European leaders to Paris to discuss new proposals for solutions and assistance for Ukraine” and that he would go there .
While February 24 will mark the second anniversary of the outbreak of the large-scale attack on Moscow, Ukraine finds itself in an “extremely difficult” position on the front, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted on Monday. The Ukrainian army is facing multiple Russian assaults which it is finding all the more difficult to repel as it suffers from a shortage of ammunition and the freezing of American aid, blocked by President Joe’s Republican rivals. Biden in Congress.
In this context, Emmanuel Macron called on Europeans for a “collective burst” during the signing of a bilateral security agreement with President Zelensky on February 16 in Paris.