Ukraine's president again calls on Russia to negotiate while Emmanuel Macron is trying assemble a coalition to evacuate civilians from Mariupol.
US officials were cautious about whether this meant the Kremlin was scaling back its overall objectives amid a haphazard war campaign. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, is trying to assemble an international coalition to evacuate civilians from Mariupol. Macron said France wasworking with Turkey and Greece on the “humanitarian operation… Vladimir Putin has accused the west ofdiscriminating against Russian culture, comparing the treatment of Russian cultural figures to that of the “cancelled” Harry Potter author JK Rowling.