As if he called a friend.
“Sorry, Emmanuel,” said President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine, Responds to the phone in the middle of an online news conference at the end of March. “I just have a conversation with journalists. Can I come back in a few minutes?” At the other end of the phone, French President Emmanuel Macron called directly. He could wait, it seemed.
“Yes, thank you.
This call, either Mr. Macron or Mr. Zelensky, was reflected in the two leaders of mutual respect, confidence and individual, according to meetings closely working with Zelensky. This connection defends many of many of which many of which many of them said, defending Ukraine’s sovereignty and then raped.
People who met interviews took part in critical points. And Russia and Ukraine offer a portrait of a relationship between the strategic partnership on the war between the war.
“They have a unique trust and accountability,” he said.
A brave leader who embodies the Ukrainian resistance of French President Mr. Zelensky, is true, and a few of the interviews. Mr. Zelensky, who called Mr. Makron, who protects Mr. Makron, said that he would defend the interests of Kiev, who protected Mr. Makron, and said that President Trump said.
Men no longer go through official diplomatic channels, but take the phone and call each other directly – safe lines, whatsapp and signal. Their conversations have a lot of time agenda, but sometimes calling something or call each other to make a voice from an idea. Sometimes, Mr. Zelenski’s hometown of Mr. Zelenski, Kryvyi, after a Russian rocket, He kills 19 and turns a playground to the Macabre morgueMr. Macron just calls out of anxiety and friendship.
During Mr. Zelenski’s campaign for office, Mr. Macron turned his politician to the élysée palace in Paris – was a rare invitation for any candidate, was relatively unknown and unemployed. This helped Mr Zelensky’s trust in the house. After a while, Mr. Zelensky, in April 2019, was elected president in a surprise sliding voting.
“He was really grateful for the visible support of the head of a figure with a G7 head of state,” he said.
Mr. Macron ended Mr. Zelenski’s country, bringing it to Europe and ended with the illegal combination of war with Russia in 2014. Both were 41 years old – only one month was born between a month.
“Macron liked the story of an unexpected President Zelensky, because Macron was an unexpected President,” said Macron’s former Foreign Minister Natalie Loiseau. “Both did not bet on people inhabited.”
As the new President of Mr Zelenskin, the first head of state, as the President of the Ukrainian Ukraine, went to Paris in June 2019. Then the same year returned His first – and only President Vladimir V. and Russia directly negotiated with Russian Putin on the war between Russia.
At that time, Mr. Macro himself tried to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. He spoke regularly with Mr Putin, greeted him several times in France and Visited Moscow in February 2022Only a few weeks before Russia’s full-scale occupation of Ukraine, he began to believe that Russia could refuse to attack the Russian president.
After the occupation, Mr. Macron remained in contact with Mr. Putin. In need of Russian security and run low From Russia, it criticized many European counterparts and Ukrainians who are naive and extremely regrettable against the attacker.
The Ukrainian troops turned into a large number of Macron and became a Ukrainian verb. Mr. Zelensky thanked France to Humanitarian and Diplomatic Support, O and the Other Highest Ukrainian officials frustration expressed On the slow pace of French weapons supply.
This period traveled to Mr. Macron with Mr. Macron with Mr. Macron, Mr. Macron, along with Mr. Macron, with a book written in Mr. Macron, along with Mr. Macron.
Then four months war, Mr. Macron went to Kiev And the iripe was around the unshakable.
“It was the moment I witnessed his relationship changed,” said Loiseau.
With Mr. Zelensky, a long one went out of a meeting. “Macron said to me,” We are very lucky to have someone to have someone, “he said.” We can work with him. We have to bet on him. Worth it. “”
Mr. Macron has stopped talking to Mr Putin after Ukrainian soldiers released Bucha slaughter there. Talking to the newspaper Le Figaro At the beginning of 2023, Mr. Zelensky said: “I think he has changed. And this time it changed for real.”
In May 2023, Mr. Makron said in the speech of Makron, Slovakia in Bratislava, said that Eastern European countries did not listen to long-term warnings and called on Western countries to offer security guarantees to Ukraine. Many analysts have taken a large change in the French President’s policy and threw to defend Ukraine by closing Russia’s door.
“Since then, relations with Zelensky improve and deepen,” said Momtaz.
Some people close to the French President said they regret that France did not provide direct assistance to military equipment or Kiev. However, Mr. Macron thinks Mr. Zelensky together with other leaders – including the re-elected Mr. Trump for the office. In the opening of the notre-dame cathedral in December – And by providing taboo concepts in resolving the war.
For example, in February 2024, in a meeting in Paris, Mr. Macron He sailed the idea of the European idea that troops into Ukraine to provide a ceasefire. Pushback was almost unanimous in time. Now, more than a year, then, Detailed discussions continue to support makeup and that force.
“Macron’s utility for Zelensky is a friend who can sympathize and help with him. We are not in a war, emotional,” he said. “France is helping, but it also helps a lot to break the way to the table, to violate the way.”
Mr. Trump proved an important channel and translator between Mr. Macro, American President and Mr Zelensky, the President of Washington.
After Mr. Zelensky Disaster February Visit the White HouseMr. Macron talked to two leaders and two leaders and helped both men to tidy a gentle approximation for consultants.
“Macron said Momtaz, using Trump to improve Zelensky’s position.
In recent months, Mr. Zelensky and Mr. Macron, the pace and content of conversations, insisting on the anonymity of the French political practice, said two diplomats, who are close to Mr. Macron. Instead of military materials, they are now discussing ceasefire plans and in the battlefield and white.
Mr. Macron, Mr. Rufo and Mr. Zelensky, regularly informed about the intimate movements of the war and discusses the battlefield with Mr. Zelensky – the front discusses the names of cities and villages.
“Emmanuel is a specialist in war,” said Mr Zelensky said Bernard-Henry LevyA French intelligence that knows the leader, a new documentary related to Ukraine, “Our war”, “our war”, the “Our war” was established to release the Moon released by the Cohen Media Group.
Mr. Levy, who met with leaders for documentaries, said he witnessed “brotherhood, brotherhood, brotherhood, brotherhood.”
For Mr. Zelensky said: Mr. Macron “There was more than the Allied – I think he became friends.”
