{"id":645717,"date":"2025-12-21T06:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645717\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T06:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:33:12","slug":"russia-says-putin-open-to-ukraine-war-talks-with-frances-macron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645717\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia says Putin open to Ukraine war talks with France\u2019s Macron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Vladimir Putin is ready to talk to France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron over the war in Ukraine, the Russian president\u2019s spokesman said in an interview published on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Putin has \u201cexpressed readiness to engage in dialogue with Macron\u201d, Dmitry Peskov told state news agency RIA Novosti.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cTherefore, if there is mutual political will, then this can only be assessed positively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Macron said this week he believed Europe should reach back out to Putin over ending the war.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI believe that it\u2019s in our interest as Europeans and Ukrainians to find the right framework to re-engage this discussion\u201d in the coming weeks, the French president said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">European Union leaders agreed on Friday to give Ukraine a loan of \u20ac90 billion (US$105 billion) to plug looming budget shortfalls, as the conflict approaches the end of its fourth year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin is ready to talk to France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron over the war in Ukraine, the Russian president\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5309],"tags":[7667,34,2000,299,2557,1699,36,7664,660,2301,198133,155623,18330,657,156851,333,658],"class_list":["post-645717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-dmitry-peskov","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european-commission","tag-european-union","tag-france","tag-kirill-dmitriev","tag-kremlin","tag-moscow","tag-ria-novosti","tag-russian-assets","tag-telegram","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelensky"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115756165552986792","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}