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French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Moscow for talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, expressing his “moderate optimism without expecting any miracles” regarding the meeting, according to “Russia Today”, which quoted the French president as saying on board the French presidential plane before arriving in the capital. Russian: “I expect to meet with moderate optimism, but I do not believe in instant miracles.”
The channel pointed out that Macron is visiting Moscow before heading to Kiev tomorrow, once morest the backdrop of tension over Ukraine and Western allegations regarding a possible Russian invasion of it.
Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that tension in Europe, the situation around Ukraine and the file of Russian proposals on security guarantees will be at the top of the agenda of talks between Putin and Macron.
