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Macron calls Zelensky following 105-minute talk with Putin
(From L) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend a meeting on Ukraine at the Elysee Palace,in Paris, on December 9, 2019. (Thibault Camus/ POOL/ AFP)
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the telephone, the French presidency says, shortly after he ended a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Macron called Putin about the situation in Ukraine in a last-ditch effort to avert a Russian invasion of Ukraine, his office says.
The Macron-Putin call, which lasted 105 minutes, came two weeks after Macron went to Moscow to persuade Putin to hold back from sending troops massed on the border into Ukraine.
It represented “the final possible and necessary efforts to avoid a major conflict in Ukraine,” the Elysee said ahead of the conversation.
