The Kremlin denied on Tuesday that Vladimir Putin had promised French President Emmanuel Macron that Russia would stage no further manoeuvres near Ukraine for now, pouring cold water on a tentative French assertion of diplomatic progress.
, who visited Moscow on Monday, is the highest ranking Western leader to have met the Russian president since Moscow massed more than 100,000 troops near the Ukrainian frontier in what NATO countries fear is preparation for war.
Putin had also given no new promise about when Russian troops would leave Belarus, Peskov said. They were expected to return to bases in Russia at some point after the drills, but "no one had ever said they would stay" in Belarus, he said. Macron defended his mission as having prevented a further deterioration of the crisis. He had never expected "for one second" that Putin would make concessions, he told journalists after arriving in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, where he was due to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.Western countries, particularly the United States, say they fear Putin is preparing to invade Ukraine.
. He did not specify how he would go about ensuring the recently completed pipeline between Russia and Germany would not be used.
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