French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the Russian attack on Ukraine and, faced with the economic consequences of the sanctions policy, appealed to the willingness of the French to pay the “price of freedom”.
“I am thinking of our people who need the courage to face the times ahead, to resist uncertainty, sometimes comfort and adversity, and to accept together to pay the price for our freedom and values,” Macron said at a World War II commemoration yesterday. in Bormes-les-Mimosas in the south of France.
Since the brutal attack launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the war has returned to European soil and within hours of the French border, Macron said. At the same time, he paid tribute to the heroic efforts of the Ukrainian people against the Russian army.