Macron Meets With Putin as France Tries to Flex Diplomatic Muscle Over Ukraine

French President Emmanuel Macron met with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Ukraine crisis, seeking to bolster his diplomatic credentials ahead of April’s French election

, stepping up pressure to isolate Moscow as French President Emmanuel Macron kicked off a round of shuttle diplomacy aimed at thawing tensions between the Kremlin and the West.

Speaking at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Mr. Biden said “there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2” should Moscow invade Ukraine. Mr. Putin has massed more than 100,000 troops along the border with Ukraine in what Western officials that would be Europe’s biggest land war since World War II. His demand: that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization scale back its military presence in Eastern Europe to 1997, before most of the eastern countries joined the alliance.

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