French President Emmanuel Macron, on a visit to Benin Wednesday, marked Russia "one of the last majestic provincial powers" for its intrusion of Ukraine.
"Russia sent off a hostile against Ukraine. It's a regional conflict, any semblance of which we thought had vanished from European soil. It's a conflict from the mid twentieth, even the nineteenth 100 years," Macron said on the second leg of an outing to Africa to reset France's relations with the mainland, where numerous countries are previous French provinces.
"I talk on a landmass that has experienced frontier colonialism," Macron said.
Conveying the verbal main side at a public interview with Benin President Patrice Talon, Macron said "Russia is one of the last supreme provincial powers," for it had chosen to "attack an adjoining country to protect its inclinations".
Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, igniting a conflict that has killed thousands, dislodged millions and started fears of a worldwide food emergency regarding impeded grain trades.
Macron blamed the Kremlin for sending off "another kind of half breed universal conflict."
"It concluded that data, energy and food were military instruments set at the assistance of a colonialist mainland battle against Ukraine," he said.
Macron said he needed to "portray what's going on today in the baldest terms".
He blamed Russia for disturbance through "disinformation", depicting it as "one of the nations to make the most powerful utilization of instruments of publicity". He alluded explicitly to the TV channels Russia Today and Sputnik.
Russia has scaled back gas conveyances to western Europe and Ukrainian grain has stayed hindered in ports starting from the beginning of the conflict, driving a flood in worldwide costs for energy and cereals.
Russia's energy goliath Gazprom sliced its gas products to Europe by means of the Nord Stream pipeline on Wednesday to around 20% of its ability, German specialists have said.
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