War in Ukraine: for Vladimir Putin, the conflict is the fault … of Westerners

During a rare telephone exchange with Emmanuel Macron, Vladimir Putin said that the war in Ukraine came from Western politics. He insisted on the need for a “global and long -term” peace agreement, taking into account “new territorial realities”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday that he considered the Ukrainian conflict as “a direct consequence of the Western States policy”, also judging that a peace agreement should register “in the long term”, during their first conversation since 2022.

The Russian president “recalled (to Mr. Macron) that the Ukrainian conflict was a direct consequence of the policy of Western States,” said the Kremlin in a report of this call, adding that the West had “ignored the security interests of Russia for years” and created an “anti-Russian bridgehead”.

According to the Russian presidency, Mr. Putin told his French counterpart that any peace agreement in Ukraine should be “global and in the long term, predict the elimination of the profound causes of the Ukrainian crisis and rely on new territorial realities”.