In call with Macron, Putin calls invasion warnings ‘provocative speculation’

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin tells his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that accusations Moscow plans to attack Ukraine are “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 says after phone talks, adding that “conditions are being created for possible aggressive actions of the Ukrainian security forces in the Donbass.”

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