Jean-Yves Le Drian goes there with his prognosis. The French Foreign Minister said on Sunday that he believed in Ukraine’s final victory against the Russian invasion. However, he warned against the destruction and civilian casualties that the siege of large cities could cause.
“For ten days, what has been most striking is Ukraine’s strong resistance capacity, to a point that the experts did not imagine”, he explained on France 5. “We enter into the logic of the sieges, and the logic of the sieges is part of our sinister expertise in the functioning and action of the Russian forces”, he further underlined.
“The example of Grozny”
“We have the example of Grozny, we have the example of Aleppo and it will start again,” added the head of French diplomacy, referring to the very heavy assessments of Russian interventions in the Chechen capital and in the big city. from northern Syria. “I think what we will find in Mariupol when the war is over will be horrible, there is Odessa and then there is Kiev”.
“I think Ukraine will win,” said Jean-Yves Le Drian above all, citing in support of this analysis the diplomatic isolation of Russia and the effect of international sanctions. “We have taken considerable series of sanctions, the effects of which are being heavy and will in my opinion be more and more heavy, which means that the price to be paid for the war will become unbearable and that at some point At some point, President Putin will be faced with the choice of having major effects on the functioning of Russia or opening negotiations”.
During a telephone conversation between Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin on Sunday, the master of the Kremlin affirmed that he would “achieve his objectives” in Ukraine “either through negotiation or through war”. On the other hand, he denied attacking civilians, according to the French presidency.