Ukraine-Russia war latest: Macron warns strong action needed if Putin continues to ‘buy time and refuse peace’
Two days after a Russian ballistic missile killed 20 people in Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky’s home town, Emmanuel Macron has called for strong action if Russia continues to “refuse peace”.
The French president wrote on X on Sunday: “My thoughts are with the children and all civilian victims of the bloody attacks carried out by Russia, including on 4 April in Kryvyi Rih.
“A ceasefire is needed as soon as possible. And strong action if Russia continues to try to buy time and refuse peace.”
President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the West to amp up pressure on Russia after it launched its latest deadly air raid on Kyiv.
As one person died in Kyiv, and three were injured, Ukraine’s leader said that “pressure on Russia is still insufficient, and the daily Russian strikes on Ukraine prove it”.
He said Kyiv wasn’t the only region which suffered strikes, as the Mykolaiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi and Cherkasy regions were also hit.
“The number of air attacks is increasing. This is how Russia reveals its true intentions – to continue the terror for as long as the world allows it” he said.
