French President Emmanuel Macron has “every intention of visiting Ukraine by mid-March”, his entourage stressed on Monday, as Russian social media spread rumors of a planned attack during the visit, AFP reported.
“There were never any security issues in the schedule of the visit. This issue was never raised,” AFP assured the head of state.
According to a video attributed to France 24 and posted on Russian networks, but condemned by the channel as “fake”, the head of state canceled his trip after “French intelligence services” discovered a “conspiracy” against him “assassination”.
Following the incident, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now number two in the country’s Security Council, joked about the visit, which Emmanuel Macron first announced would take place in February and then in mid-March.
“It seems that Macron was so scared of an actual or suspected (…) assassination that he canceled his trip,” he quipped, in a rare direct attack on a Western leader.
On Friday, Emmanuel Macron told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, who arrived in Paris to sign a bilateral security agreement, that he would visit his country “until mid-March”. In January, he spoke about a visit to Lyuta.
Source: Hot News
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