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Macron: Putin shouldn’t be humiliated over ‘historic’ mistake
Invasion of Ukraine has left Russia ‘isolated,’ French president says.
French President Emmanuel Macron said the West should not “humiliate” Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine so as to preserve the chance to find a diplomatic solution to the “historic” mistake of invading the country.
- Gabriela Galindo
- Politico
“We must not humiliate Russia so that the day when the fighting stops we can build an exit ramp through diplomatic means,” Macron said in an interview Friday with regional media, stressing that France would play a key mediating role.
“I think, and I have told him, that he has made a historic and fundamental mistake for his people, for himself and…