Macron declines to follow Biden and call Russian acts in Ukraine ‘genocide’
by Julian Borger in Washington from World news | The Guardian on (#5Y581)
Biden had accused Moscow of genocide but French president says escalation of words' will not bring peace
Emmanuel Macron has declined to follow Joe Biden's example in labelling Russia's actions in Ukraine as genocide, arguing that an escalation of words" would not help bring peace.
The French president's remarks drew an angry response from Kyiv, particularly his apparent argument that the term genocide" did not apply because Ukrainians and Russians were brotherly people".
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