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French foreign minister says Russia only ‘pretending to negotiate’
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In this file photo taken on September 10, 2021 French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian attends a meeting in Budapest, Hungary (Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP)
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says Russia is only “pretending to negotiate” with Ukraine.
He says that talks need to focus on a ceasefire above all else, because “you don’t negotiate with a gun to your head.”
He tells the French newspaper Le Parisien that Russia is carrying out a “dramatic process of long-lasting brutality” in Ukraine.
Ukrainian negotiators are also reportedly skeptical or Russia’s intentions at the negotiating table, suspecting that the Kremlin may be buying time to regroup its military forces.
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