French President Emmanuel Macron expressed confidence that his American counterpart Donald Trump will react to Vladimir Putin's "cynicism" after Russia carried out a new drone attack in Ukraine, AFP reported, quoted by BTA.
"I am sure that President Trump, who is concerned about the authority of the United States of America, will react to President Putin's cynicism", Macron said at a joint press conference with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in Tirana. Yesterday, a summit of leaders from the European continent was organized in the Albanian capital.
"A president was elected by the American people. He came with the ambition to be a savior, to create peace. He said he would engage the whole world" in this endeavor, added Macron.
"The ceasefire proposals, which I remind you are an American initiative, were not respected by President Putin and his troops," Macron said.
A day after peace talks in Istanbul between Russia and Ukraine, at which the two sides agreed to an exchange of prisoners of war but failed to reach an agreement on a ceasefire, a Russian drone attack in Ukraine on a minibus transporting civilians killed 9 people and injured 4.