Elysee Palace initiates Macron-Putin phone call: Kremlin

“It was the French side’s idea,” Peskov said, adding that Putin had “repeatedly stated his willingness to engage in dialogue,” TASS reported.

On July 1, the presidents of Russia and France held a telephone conversation for the first time in almost three years. Both the Kremlin and the Elysee Palace described the conversation as informative.

The Russian and French presidents were in permanent contact until September 2022, but the calls stopped after Macron breached confidentiality and leaked information from one of their conversations.

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