Russian President Vladimir Putin told his French counterpart
Emmanuel Macron Saturday that accusations Moscow plans to attack Ukraine were
“provocative speculation” and could lead to a conflict in the ex-Soviet
country.
Putin and Macron discussed what Moscow called “provocative
speculation related to an allegedly planned Russian ‘invasion’ of Ukraine,” the
Kremlin said after phone talks.
In a statement, the Kremlin accused Kyiv’s allies of sending
“modern weapons” to the ex-Soviet country and being unwilling to force Kyiv
authorities to implement Western-brokered agreements to halt a festering
conflict in eastern Ukraine.
“Conditions are being created for possible aggressive
actions of the Ukrainian security forces in the Donbas,” the Kremlin added.
Putin, who hosted Macron at the Kremlin last Monday,
stressed that there was no reaction from the United States and NATO to Russia’s
demands to provide security guarantees, the statement said.
“The unwillingness of the leading Western countries to push
the Kyiv authorities to implement the Minsk agreements was also emphasised,”
the Kremlin said.
The two spoke for one hour 40 minutes, the French presidency
said, amid a flurry of diplomacy aimed at dissuading Putin from marching into
his western neighbour. US President Joe Biden is due to speak to the Russian
leader later Saturday.
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