Macron shuttled between Kyiv and Moscow in an attempt to prevent the conflict, and once Russia invaded, he was regularly on the phone to Putin trying to coax him to the negotiating table.

French President Macron is expected to tell Sir Keir Starmer that Brexit has failed as he appears at a key EU summit.

"This means that one of the essential points we must address - as President Putin has always said ... the day it returns to the negotiating table," Macron said. Russia and the United States ...