As if "Ukraine had become just another issue": Raphaël Glucksmann criticizes Emmanuel Macron's phone call to Vladimir Putin

French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann said on BFMTV on Sunday, July 6, that Emmanuel Macron's phone call to Vladimir Putin "will achieve nothing," complaining that it "sends the message" to the Russian leader that we can "work together" on matters that do not concern Ukraine.

"The only thing we need to discuss with him is the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine," in the name of "the security of Europeans," declared the leader of Place publique.

"The only thing it will do is send the message that Ukraine has become just another issue," he sighed.

In the Élysée press release, published after this call on Tuesday, the first since September 2022, between the two presidents, "Ukraine is four lines, everything else is 'we will work together on Iran'," he regretted.

"If Ukraine collapses, all of European security collapses," Raphaël Glucksmann repeated, calling for "listening to our security services, the German, Danish, and Polish security services, when they tell us that Putin's plan is to invade a member country of the European Union and NATO before 2029."

"As long as Vladimir Putin threatens the security of Europeans, we will not talk to him," he said, refusing to allow France to "pretend that we can continue to have diplomatic relations with him as long as there is no peace in Ukraine."

He also noted that since this exchange with Emmanuel Macron, "there have never been such heavy bombings on kyiv."

"Every time Vladimir Putin senses in us the temptation to return to discussion or to normalcy with him, he attacks even harder ," the politician lamented.

French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on Tuesday, displaying their differences over the conflict in Ukraine but expressing their readiness to cooperate to control Iran's nuclear program following the damage caused by Israeli and American strikes.