Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky was "elected through free elections," says French President Emmanuel Macron, contrasting this with Russia's Vladimir Putin, "who kills his opponents and has manipulated his election for a long time". Macron's comments come ahead of a planned visit to the White House next week, where he will meet US President Donald Trump.
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00:00The Ukrainian president has been elected by free elections in Ukraine.
00:03He was not at all the favorite.
00:05I remember it as if it were yesterday.
00:08And so he is a president elected by a free system.
00:11This is not the case of Vladimir Putin,
00:13who kills his opponents and has been manipulating his elections for a long time.
00:16This is not the case, unfortunately, in other countries in the world.
00:18We are not today, in any case, in the situation
00:21I will not decide tomorrow to send troops to Ukraine, no.
00:24And what we are considering rather is to send forces
00:28to guarantee peace once it is negotiated and signed.
00:31And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to tell him
00:35Basically, you can't be weak against President Putin.
00:40It's not you, it's not your trademark.
00:44It's not your interest.
00:45How can you be credible against China if you are weak against Putin?