“As long as Ukraine resists, the French army can remain on French territory,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said on Tuesday, also calling for the deployment of “technical personnel” for “joint production” of Caesar guns and “training,” according to AFP .

“Your children will not die in Ukraine,” the Ukrainian president continued in an interview with French TV channel BFMTV and Le Monde newspaper.

“I can give you the latest information: the situation is much better than in the last three months,” he assured, contradicting many recent assessments of the Russian military campaign in Ukraine.

The advance of the Russians “continued in the east of the country, today our command, our soldiers stopped it,” he said.

On February 26, French President Emmanuel Macron said that sending Western troops to Ukraine in the future should not be “ruled out” due to “strategic uncertainty.”

Stéphane Sejourn, Macron’s foreign minister, as well as other French diplomats, later clarified that the leader in Paris was not referring to sending troops to fight Russian forces, but rather a supporting role.

Moscow was not convinced by the explanation, and several high-ranking Russian officials strongly condemned his words.

French President Emmanuel Macron has again postponed his official visit to Ukraine, but it should take place in the coming weeks, his presidential office said on Sunday, citing Reuters.

Macron initially said he planned to travel to Kyiv in February to sign a bilateral security agreement with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyi. But the visit was postponed, and in the end Zelensky went to Paris to sign the agreement.