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President of France Emmanuel Macron believes that Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has turned into a triple failure for the Russian Federation, UATV English reports.
He wrote about this in a post in Ukrainian on the social network X.
The French leader stated that “this war is a triple failure for Russia”: military, economic, and strategic.
“It strengthened NATO, whose expansion Russia wanted to prevent; it united Europeans, whom it sought to weaken; and it exposed the fragility of imperialism from another era,” Macron wrote.
He emphasized that while the Kremlin had promised to seize Ukraine in a few days, only 1% of Ukrainian territory has been captured since the stabilization of the front in November 2022, and last month Ukraine even liberated part of its territories.
“And at what cost for the Russians? More than 1.2 million Russian soldiers have been wounded or killed — the largest combat losses for Russia since World War II,” the French president stated.
Faced with such losses, he added, Russia is recruiting people on the African continent to send them to fight on the Ukrainian front, often without any prior training.
Macron assured that the supply of equipment and ammunition to Ukraine, training, strengthening of air defense and counter-drone capabilities, as well as maintenance of previously delivered equipment will continue “so that Ukraine endures and so that Russia understands: time is not on its side.”
In mid-February, Macron criticized pessimistic statements regarding Ukraine, arguing that the war has in fact weakened Russia.
He also stated that sending troops to Ukraine at this time would mean escalation and a loss of control over the situation.
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