French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had spoken this evening, July 1, an informed source said to RBC-Ukraine. According to the source, Macron called Zelenskyy after his conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron have spoken in a phone call for the first time in three years.

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that it was France that asked for French President Emmanuel Macron to speak by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin after a pause of nearly three years and that the two leaders had a "very substantive" discussion.