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From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Macron says Trump ‘can restart useful dialogue’ with Putin
French President Emmanuel Macron says he will host a new meeting on Ukraine after the talks between the new US administration and Russia, adding that Donald Trump “can restart a useful dialogue” with Vladimir Putin.
In an interview with French regional newspapers, Macron says Paris was not “preparing to send ground troops, which are belligerent to the conflict, to the front” in Ukraine but was considering, with its ally Britain, sending “experts or even troops in limited terms, outside any conflict zone.”
He says the new talks will take place on Wednesday “with several European and non-European states,” after an emergency meeting on Monday in Paris which brought together a small number of key European countries.
