French President Emmanuel Macron says that he doesn’t want the war in Ukraine to “morph” into a wider war, but neither is he seeking an end to it. “We would like to stop the war without joining it. We do not want a global war and a geographical spillover of this conflict to other regions,” he said in an interview with France 2 and TF1 TV channels on July 14, reported TASS. “We need to be ready for this conflict to be a long one. A particularly difficult period will be in the summer and in the beginning of autumn. Yet, France still intends to provide economic and military support to Ukraine.”
What continued Western support of the Kiev regime means was shown by Yulia Zhdanova, an adviser to the Russian delegation at the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, who told a meeting of the OSCE that Western states do everything to prevent Kiev from engaging in a peace process. “It is time for our colleagues to decide what they really want to achieve: talks or Ukraine’s victory ‘on the battlefield.’ So far, they have been doing everything to prevent Kiev from engaging in a peace process, pumping it with Western weapons that are then being used to shell cities and exterminate civilian populations. We observe the latter daily, and we cannot tolerate that,” she said, reported TASS.
