Moscow has offered to bring civilians to Russia and Belarus. “All this is not serious,” criticized the head of state.
Emmanuel Macron denounced Monday March 7 “moral and political cynicismby Vladimir Putin, who offers humanitarian corridors to the inhabitants of several cities in Ukraine to “bring them to Russia“. Initially, Moscow assured that it had made this proposal following a French request, the President of the Republic having spoken the day before with his Russian counterpart. The Élysée stressed in the middle of the morning that Emmanuel Macron had not asked for humanitarian corridors to be opened to Russia.
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What is necessary, “it’s not just corridors, which are immediately threatened, it’s not this hypocritical speech which consists in saying: ”We are going to protect people to bring them to Russia”“said the president in an interview with LCI. “All this is not serious, it is moral and political cynicism, which is unbearable to me“, he added.
For its part, Ukraine refused the opening of the humanitarian corridors proposed by Russia. “This is not an acceptable option“Lamented Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk. And to add that the evacuated civilians “will not go to Belarus and then fly to Russia“.
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