“You have to imagine the heroism of the army and the population”, underlined Emmanuel Macron at the end of his visit to Irpin, one of the suburbs of kyiv devastated in the first weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Head of State also spoke of “war crimes” and “massacres” taking place in this city.

“We have all seen these images of a devastated city, which is both a heroic city since it is here, among other places, that the Ukrainians stopped the Russian army which was descending on kyiv. So you have to imagine the heroism of the army, but also of the Ukrainian population, ”said the French president, who was accompanied by German leaders Olaf Scholz, Italian Mario Draghi, and Romanian Klaus Iohannis.