LIVE - War in Ukraine: “Now is not the time” to stop helping kyiv or lift sanctions against Moscow, EU warns

“After a while, we will no longer be able to cope” financially, warned Sébastien Chenu this Friday morning, while the National Rally does not hide its desire to end aid to kyiv. “Volodymyr Zelensky, I imagine he wants peace too?”, he pretended to question, accusing Emmanuel Macron of not having “taken initiative for a very, very long time” in favor of peace.

Sébastien Chenu brandished the threat of a financial crisis this morning. “Our economy will end up collapsing and, when we collapse, we will no longer be able to help anyone,” said the vice-president of the RN. “If we have a bond crisis in a few months or a few weeks, the question of aid to Ukraine will no longer arise, so what it is time to do is restore our country’s public finances,” he said.

The vice-president of the National Rally Sébastien Chenu criticized on Friday the “condescension” according to him of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky who estimated that by wanting to cut aid to Ukraine if she was elected president, Marine Le Pen “does not master certain details”.

“Volodymyr Zelensky should not show this condescension, especially since Marine Le Pen does not take him as a traitor,” defended the Northern MP on LCI, recalling that the candidate had promised to maintain “training, humanitarian aid, material aid” for six months.

Volodymyr Zelensky and Marine Le Pen spoke through the media on Thursday, the first believing that France “can only gain” from this “cooperation”, particularly in terms of weapons technologies. We give in return,” he argued, estimating that “Madame Le Pen does not have a good handle on certain details” when she announced that she would cut France’s financial aid to Ukraine six months after her election.

Now is not the time to stop helping Ukraine or lift sanctions against Russia, the two main leaders of the European Union said on Friday in Brussels, alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“You can count on us”, assured the President of the European Council Antonio Costa, and “one thing is absolutely clear: we will not lift any sanctions until Russia has stopped the war”, underlined for her part the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, receiving Volodymyr Zelensky, host of a summit of the 27 countries of the European Union on Friday.

Hello and welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the war in Ukraine. The Ukrainian president is in Brussels this Friday to demand the support of his European allies. In recent days, he has been shaken by Donald Trump's speeches. Follow this important day for the future of Ukraine with Le Figaro.