Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that France has repeatedly appealed to Russia through closed channels, proposing that they establish a dialogue on the Russian-Ukrainian war without Ukraine's participation.

Public willingness to support Ukraine “until it wins” has dropped significantly across France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, and the U.K., according to a YouGov poll reported by The Guardian on Dec.

Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, claims that France proposed a dialogue with Russia about the war in Ukraine without involving Kyiv. They reportedly approached Moscow multiple times. Many reports from Russian media or government representatives are elements of propaganda.

In a diplomatic hit-job, the Russian foreign minister also criticized Macron’s ideas on post-war peacekeeping forces in Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday said France had tried to establish "dialogue" with Moscow on Ukraine but without Kyiv's participation -- a claim that was dismissed by Paris as "intemperate".

France’s president and prime minister managed to form a new government just in time for the holidays. Crushing debt, intensifying pressure from the nationalist far right, wars in Europe and the Mideast: Challenges abound for President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Francois Bayrou after an already tumultuous 2024.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy did not buy a luxury hotel in the French ski resort of Courchevel this year, regulatory filings and his asset declarations show, contrary to claims circulated online.

Moscow again struck Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, part of an effort to wear down the country. “In the trenches, there are no holidays,” one man said.

Meanwhile the government in the restive French South Pacific territory of New Caledonia collapsed Tuesday in a wave of resignations by pro-independence figures — another challenge for the new overseas affairs minister, Manuel Valls, and the incoming Cabinet.

The willingness to support Ukraine "until victory" has sharply decreased in Western Europe at a critical time for Kyiv. Source: European Pravda with reference to The Guardian, which cites the results of a December YouGov poll in France,

The deadly crash of Azerbaijan Airlines plane in Kazakhstan has been compared to the 2014 downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine...

The attack is one of several recent strikes in Rostov Oblast. On Dec. 25, Ukrainian long-range drones targeted an ammunition depot at the Kadamovsky military training ground, a source in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) told The Kyiv Independent.