Macron believes that Ukraine should raise “realistic” debates about its territories occupied by Russia

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MADRID Jan. 6 () –

French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that Ukrainian authorities should be “realistic” about their territorial concerns in any future negotiations to end the Ukraine war.

Macron has pointed out that Ukraine must raise “realistic debates” on the territorial issue because “only they can put themselves in front of them” and thus be able to find a solution that puts an end to this part of the conflict, which will now be three years old next month. February.

In his annual speech this Monday before the French ambassadors, Macron stressed that “there is no easy and quick solution in Ukraine”, unlike what the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, has been saying, whom he hopes can “convince” Russia to come to the negotiating table.

At the same time, it has left it to Europe to provide “security guarantees” to Ukraine so that this does not happen again. The capitulation of kyiv, he stressed, “cannot be good for Europeans and Americans,” according to the French channel BFMTV.

The return of the territories in eastern Ukraine occupied by Russia during the war is one of the issues that kyiv has raised as a top priority before any type of agreement can be reached.