27 Jul 2023 8:55 am
jerrab » 26 Jul 2023, 5:18 pm » wrote: ↑ zelensky insisted on getting crimea back even though france and germany did not want to get involved.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... insecurity
The struggle to stay on the diplomatic radar has become a familiar one. On Monday, Ukraine held an attention-seeking summit on Crimea, illegally annexed by Vladimir Putin in March 2014. The European Union, with which Ukraine signed an association agreement months later, imposed sanctions, and refuses to recognise the territory as part of Russia. At the summit, the European council president, Charles Michel, promised that the EU would continue to “stand tall” against such violations of international law. But in truth, the Russian annexation is a fait accompli that no one now expects to be reversed. Sending late apologies, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel failed to appear at the event.
Merkel and Macron were caught in the bushes.