Macron found it difficult to explain Putin's decision to launch an operation in Ukraine

Vladimir Putin's decision to launch a special operation in Ukraine is difficult to explain, French President Emmanuel Macron told CNN.

“I have no rational explanation. I think it's a mixture of resentment, regional hegemony strategy and, I would say, the aftermath of covid-19 . Isolation,” says Macron.

According to the French leader, Putin believes that in the period after the 1990s he was not sufficiently respected by politicians from other countries. “I don’t think that’s the reason for what he did,” Macron said. “But that’s his way of thinking.”

Macron, after the start of the special operation in Ukraine, called Putin many times and urged him to end the conflict. In the first of these conversations, the Russian president, as reported by the Kremlin press service, "gave an exhaustive explanation of the reasons and circumstances for the decision to conduct a special military operation."

Among the reasons, the Russian authorities cited “the unwillingness of the Kyiv regime to stop the genocide of Russians”, the need to protect the population of Donbass, and to carry out the “demilitarization and denazification” of Ukraine so that nothing threatens RUSSIA.