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Putin held talks with Macron. The main thing

On February 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with French leader Emmanuel Macron, which lasted almost 6 hours. And the final press conference of the two leaders ended on the night of February 8. "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" publishes the main statements of the President of the Russian Federation.

- Putin believes that Ukraine's accession to NATO will lead to a military confrontation. "If Ukraine joins NATO and takes back Crimea by military means, European countries will automatically be drawn into a military conflict with Russia." And in this case, there will be no winners.

- Putin - to a French journalist: "Do you want to fight with Russia? Your readers, viewers, users of Internet resources. Do you want France to fight with Russia? But it will be so."

- Allegations about Moscow's aggressive behavior do not correspond to sound logic. “We are not moving towards NATO, but NATO is moving towards us. Therefore, to say that Russia is behaving aggressively, at least, does not correspond to sound logic. Have we come to the border somewhere? But the NATO infrastructure has approached us ", - stressed the Russian leader.

- The central concerns of the Russian Federation on security guarantees were ignored by the US and NATO.

- The authorities in Kiev headed for the dismantling of the Minsk agreements. Putin said that there was no progress on such fundamental issues as constitutional reform, amnesty, local elections, legal aspects of the special status of Donbass.

- "Well, like it - don't like it, be patient, my beauty. It must be done, it won't work out differently," - this is how the President of the Russian Federation described Kiev's position on the Minsk agreements.

- Putin did not rule out that Ukraine will again try to solve the problem of Donbass by force. "After all, they have already tried twice. Who guarantees against the third?" - the president said, noting that all these questions are waiting for "their painstaking researcher."

- The President of the Russian Federation said that Ukraine has concentrated about 125,000 troops in the Donbas region.

- The Russian leader called the actions of Western countries that supported the violent seizure of power in Ukraine in 2014 a bad sandbox. “They don’t perform anything themselves, but they demand some kind of performance from us. Let’s not play like that, this is a bad sandbox, we don’t like this kind of game,” the president said.

- Putin said that he promised Poroshenko political asylum if he had difficulties. The offer is still valid.

- Russia will soon send a response to the US and NATO on the subject of security assurances.

- A number of Macron's ideas may well be the basis for further steps on Ukraine and security in Europe.

- Putin said that the talks with Macron traditionally took place in a businesslike manner, were meaningful and useful.

- The President of the Russian Federation said that after Macron's visit to Kiev, they will still call each other.

Putin held talks with Macron. The main thing