Key facts
- France will provide more aviation assistance to Ukraine next month.
- France and Ukraine aim to accelerate work on the FREYJA European anti-ballistic missile defence system.
French President Emmanuel Macron stated on Thursday that it is crucial to provide Ukraine with all the means it needs to defend and protect its civilian population and its infrastructure. Macron made the remarks in Brussels after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Zelenskiy, writing on Telegram, described his conversation with Macron as 'very much to the point' and said Ukraine valued France for 'helping as much as possible to find responses to Russian escalation.'
Zelenskiy also said that France would be providing more assistance for Ukraine's aviation in the coming month. Both sides expressed a keen interest in speeding up work on the FREYJA project, a European anti-ballistic missile defence system.