The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said on Monday that the exit from the Ukrainian conflict will be carried out, in particular, with the help of the offer of “security guarantees for Ukraine”. “We will talk about Russia later,” he added after Emmanuel Macron’s latest statements regarding the guarantees that will be offered to Moscow, writes AFP.

“The exit from the war must be carried out in accordance with international law,” Borrell said in Paris during a conference organized by the European Institute of Jacques Delors, clarifying that this involves the payment of reparations by Moscow, the trial of war criminals. , withdrawal of troops and “security guarantee of Ukraine”.

He added: “regarding Russia, we will talk about that later,” implicitly referring to Emmanuel Macron’s recent statement.

The French head of state explained on Saturday that he had exchanged views with President Biden on “the security architecture in which we want to live tomorrow”, noting that it would be necessary to provide “guarantees of Russia’s own security that day”. will return to the negotiating table.”

The remarks drew criticism in Ukraine and some hard-line Eastern European countries, which sometimes accuse Emmanuel Macron of being too lenient or too open to Moscow.

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov condemned these words on Twitter. “Does anyone want to provide security guarantees to a terrorist and criminal state?” he said, referring to “doormat diplomacy.”

“We must start building (this new security architecture) with Ukraine, not with Putin’s Russia,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielus Landsbergis also said on Twitter, while Latvian Deputy Prime Minister Artis Pabriks told the Financial Times that the idea of ​​providing security guarantees is relevant. to Russia to end the war “falls into the trap of (Vladimir) Putin’s narrative that the West and Ukraine are responsible for the war.”

In his speech, Borrell also said that “Moscow cannot win the war, but it can destroy Ukraine,” referring to the strategy of Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure, especially energy.

“They did it in Syria, in Chechnya, they have experience,” he said, and then added: “The more we destroy Ukraine, the more Ukraine wins its place in the EU (…) Written . History has decided for us.”