France’s Macron postpones trip to Ukraine

A visit by President Emmanuel Macron to Ukraine should take place in the coming weeks, the French Presidency said on Sunday, the third time a planned trip to the country has been postponed since February.
Macron had initially said he planned go in February to sign a bilateral security accord with President Volodymr Zelenskiy. That was postponed with Zelenskiy eventually coming to Paris to conclude the accord.
Diplomats said a second date had been planned at the start of March before being pushed back to later this week.
“The two heads of state agreed to remain in close contact, notably regarding the president’s visit to Ukraine, which should happen in the coming weeks,” the French presidency said after the two leaders spoke by phone earlier on Sunday.
The postponement comes just days after a Russian missile missed Ukraine’s president and the prime minister of Greece by hundreds of metres (yards) when it slammed into port infrastructure in the Black Sea city of Odesa. Macron had also been due to visit Odesa.