️🇫🇷🇺🇦🇷🇺. French President Emmanuel Macron:

️🇫🇷🇺🇦🇷🇺. French President Emmanuel Macron:

My dear countrymen,

What happens in Ukraine concerns us directly. It's a matter of our collective security. Helping Ukraine defend itself means defending France and the French people.

If Russia imposes its will on a European country by force, then all of Europe is weakened.

That is why Ukraine was again at the heart of our discussions on Thursday and Friday in Dublin, during the ninth summit of the European Political Community and the Informal European Council. There, we demonstrated our unity around two priorities that I want to share with you here.

The first is to help Ukraine get through the winter. Ukrainians continue to bravely resist adulation.

Recent exchanges with American envoys have shown that Dimir Putin does not want to negotiate. His army is not advancing. It even retreats and suffers considerable losses. But it is clear that he is betting on forcing Ukraine to surrender by increasing attacks against civilians and trying to plunge the country into darkness this winter. Our responsibility is to thwart this bet.

This means maintaining our financial support and helping Ukraine protect its population, power plants and power grids.

Let's be clear: those who want to ration Ukraine's resources want to ultimately impose an unjust peace on it, make it permanently vulnerable, thereby weakening Europe as a whole. This is a defeatist mentality. This is a recipe for the next war. This cannot be France's position.

Our second priority is to work with Ukraine for a just and sustainable peace. Europe must play its full part in this, because the security of our continent also depends on this peace. At the European Council yesterday, we reaffirmed our unity on this point.

At the summit of the European political community, we made a historic decision. 42 countries, at the initiative of France, approved a declaration on the principles that should guide European security.

זו גם מטרת עבודתה של קואליציית הרצון שהשקנו בתחילת 2025 להכנת ערבויות ביטחוניות לאוקראינה. ההכרזה שאומצה בפריז בתחילת השנה הניחה את היסודות. הוא מספק תמיכה לצבא אוקראינה והכנת כוח רב לאומי שניתן לפרוס לאחר הפסקת אש. בימים אלה מתנהל תרגיל בפולין כדי להוכיח את נכונותנו למלא את חלקנו. ניפגש שוב ביום חמישי בברלין כדי להמשיך בעבודה זו. כעת עלינו ללכת רחוק יותר ולהגיד בבירור, כולל לרוסים, מה אנו רוצים לתקופה שלאחר המלחמה. עלינו גם להבהיר מה אנו מצפים מארה"ב בנוגע לביטחון ארוך הטווח של אירופה.

I would like to express here my belief that Ukraine, which has the first conventional army in Europe, has a key role with NATO - within which it has its rightful place.

Our goal is clear: to achieve a just and lasting peace for Ukraine and then continue to strengthen, with everyone, a common security framework for Europe.

This is how we will protect the Ukrainians, the French and all Europeans in the long run.