Key takeaways from Putin-Macron meeting on Ukraine

February 8, 2022

Presidents of France and Russia spoke for nearly six hours seeking to de-escalate the Ukraine crisis

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French colleague Emmanuel Macron met in Moscow on Monday, holding talks about the crisis in Ukraine, European security and bilateral issues that lasted nearly six hours. They held a joint press conference afterward revealing some of the meeting’s results.

Putin warns of possible nuclear war if Ukraine joints NATO

Bringing up NATO’s argument that any country is free to join the alliance if it so wishes, Putin said that Ukraine doing so would quickly result in a nuclear war with Russia.
Kiev has designated Russia as an adversary and insists that Crimea belongs to Ukraine, something NATO countries agree with, Putin said. The peninsula voted overwhelmingly to rejoin Russia after the February 2014 coup in Kiev, backed by the US at the expense of a power-sharing deal mediated by France and Germany. Russia officially welcomed it back a month later – something it did not do with the two Donbass regions, which followed suit.
Ukraine’s membership in NATO would trigger the alliance’s Article 5 mutual defense clause the moment Kiev decided to “reintegrate” Crimea by force, basically resulting in war with Russia, a leading nuclear power. “There would be no victors,” Putin told reporters. “[Macron] does not desire such an outcome. Neither do I.”

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from RT – Daily news

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