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Macron says Europe will need to engage with Putin if US peace talks fail
Macron warns Europe must prepare to engage directly with Putin if U.S. negotiations fail while EU agrees to lend Ukraine €90 billion to prevent budget crisis.
- On Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron said Europeans and Ukrainians should prepare to engage directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin if US-led peace talks fail and urged finding the right framework to re-engage in coming weeks after the European Council summit in Brussels.
- After the summit, EU leaders agreed to lend Ukraine 90 billion euros backed by the bloc's own budget after legal and political objections blocked using frozen Russian assets.
- U.S. officials said efforts to secure a peace deal have gathered pace under U.S. President Donald Trump while European capitals have largely been sidelined, with talks planned in Miami and Kirill Dmitriev set to visit again.
- Resuming top-level contacts would mark a significant shift as Vladimir Putin offered no compromise on Friday, while European leaders aim to prevent Kyiv’s insolvency next year amid security concerns.
- Given four years of severed contact, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said `This is what Putin is hoping for, the combination of some kind of war fatigue with a hybrid war that brings a lot of uncertainty and insecurity into our societies`, highlighting war fatigue and hybrid war obstacles to EU re-engagement.
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The French President, Emmanuel Macron, has given the "welcome" to the readiness of Russian President Vladimir Putin to hold a meeting in the coming days.
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The Kremlin is rejecting the trilateral Russia-Ukraine-US peace talks mentioned by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky before the talks in Miami. Vladimir Putin is ready to meet separately with French President Macron, they said.
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