French President Emmanuel Macron stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to attack Ukraine comes from anti-West resentment and paranoia.
Macron claimed that Covid-19 exacerbated Putin’s feeling of isolation. “He found himself in Sochi for months, he locked himself down, he had less contact with other thinking,” he told Le Point magazine.
In addition, Macron expected that Putin won’t stop his attacks as he wants a military victory ahead of May 9, the day Russia marks its victory in World War II.
Nonetheless, the French leader stressed that he will continue to speak to his Russian counterpart to warn him about the dangers of continuing the cycle of violence.
In the same vein, U.S. President Joe Biden described Russia's actions in Ukraine as a “genocide.”
“Yes, I called it genocide because it has become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of being able to be Ukrainian,” Biden told reporters before departing Iowa. “The evidence is mounting.”
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