Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - The leaders of France and Germany have said that Ukraine should be permitted to strike military sites within Russia from which missiles were being fired at Ukrainian territory, but not any other targets.
On Tuesday, May 28, French President Emmanuel Macron and
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed their opinions at a joint news
conference held for the first time following a Ukrainian attack on a Russian
military installation in Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West earlier on
Tuesday , May 28 that NATO members in Europe were playing with fire by
proposing to let Ukraine use Western-supplied weapons to strike inside Russia,
which he said could trigger a global conflict.
Since the war in Ukraine started, the US has warned Ukraine
to not use US made weapons to strike Russian territory.
A Ukrainian drone targeted a long-range radar deep within
Russia on Sunday, marking a second such strike on Russian military
infrastructure within a week.
“And I think I can say that,
factually, we are not escalating by doing this, since it is Russia that is
organizing itself in this way,” Macron said at Meseberg castle in Gransee,
Germany.
Scholz said he agreed with Macron and that as long as
Ukraine respected the conditions given by countries that supplied the weapons,
including the United States, and international law, it was allowed to defend
itself.
On the war in Gaza, with Spain, Ireland, and Norway
officially recognizing the existence of a Palestinian state on Tuesday, the
French President reiterated that he had “always defended two states as the
political solution.”
Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz also unveiled the broad
outlines of their economic strategy for Europe, calling in particular for the
creation of a European savings product at a time when €300 billion ($325.6
billion) is invested in American companies every year.
Both endeavored to demonstrate unity and also made a clear
claim to leadership in the EU.
“The German-French tandem is
very important in this respect,” said Scholz. “We always come to an agreement,”
he emphasized.
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