Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected French leader Emmanuel Macron's proposal for a truce during the Olympics in Paris. According to Zelensky, Kiev “does not believe” in the idea of the Olympic truce and believes that “it may go into the hands of the enemy”. “Who guarantees that Russia will not take advantage of this to send troops to our territory? - wondered the Ukrainian president, in an interview with Agence France-Presse.
Previously, Zelensky called Macron's initiative “a dead story”.
The French president's idea of an Olympic truce - an end to armed conflicts during the Paris Olympics - was discussed by Russian and Chinese leaders Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping during a visit< /span> of the main Russian state in China. Commenting later on Macron's proposal at the request of TASS, Putin notedthat the ideas of the Olympic movement are correct, but the International Olympic Committee (IOC) itself is violating them by not allowing Russia to compete.
Previously, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov noted that there were no official proposals from Paris regarding the Olympic truce, and Kiev usually uses such ideas and initiatives , to regroup and rearm.