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The French President and German Chancellor person voiced scepticism implicit the absorption that U.S. efforts to negociate a bid betwixt Ukraine and Russia are taking, a German mag cited a transcript of a confidential telephone arsenic showing.
In a study connected Thursday, Spiegel said that successful the telephone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and different European leaders, France’s Emmanuel Macron warned that the United States could importune that Ukraine marque territorial concessions to Russia without guarantees to forestall aboriginal Russian aggression.
“There is simply a accidental that the U.S. volition betray Ukraine connected territory without clarity connected information guarantees,” helium said, according to the magazine.
During the telephone connected Monday (December 1, 2025), Germany’s Friedrich Merz warned Mr. Zelenskyy that U.S. negotiators are “playing games” and that helium should beryllium “very careful” implicit the adjacent fewer days, the Spiegel report said.
Berlin declined to comment, portion the French President’s bureau did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
“The President did not explicit himself successful these words,” Spiegel quoted the Élysée arsenic saying.
When asked to comment, French Foreign Ministry spokesperson Pascal Confavreux told reporters astatine a briefing: “I don’t spot myself commenting connected alleged leaks. There tin beryllium nary uncertainty astir our enactment for Ukraine and the strength of our exchanges with the American side.”
European leaders connected Monday rallied to amusement enactment for Mr. Zelenskyy aft U.S.-Ukrainian talks to revise a bid connection that initially favoured Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin received U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner successful the Kremlin connected Tuesday.
On Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump said the way up for bid talks was unclear aft what helium called “reasonably good” talks betwixt his envoys and Mr. Putin.
