Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register PARIS, April 18 (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that his dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin had stopped following the discovery of mass killings in Ukraine. “From the massacres we discovered in Boucha and other cities, the war took a different turn, so I have not spoken to him directly since then, but I do not rule out doing so in the future,” Macron said in France. 5 TV. Russia has described as “monstrous forgery” allegations made by its forces against civilians in Bukha while occupying the city as “monstrous forgery” aimed at discrediting the Russian military. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Asked why he did not follow the example of other European leaders and traveled to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, Macron said he did not need a show of support on his own after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24. “I will return to Kyiv, but I will go there to bring something useful with me … because it is obvious that I do not need to travel there to show this support,” Macron said, adding that he had spoken about 40 times since the start of the war on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. “If I go to Kyiv, I will make a difference,” he said. The Kremlin says it has launched a “special military operation” to demilitarize and “liberate” Ukraine from nationalist extremists. Ukraine and the West say Putin has launched an unprovoked offensive war. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Report by Tassilo Hummel. Edited by: Nick Macfie Our role models: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
