French President intends to tell Donald Trump that it’s in the joint interest of Americans and Europeans not to “be weak” in the face of Vladimir Putin.

French president Emmanuel Macron says he will tell Donald Trump to "not be weak" in the face of Vladimir Putin, when he travels to the White House to discuss America's move to end Russia's war in Ukraine on Monday.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he will travel to Washington to try to convince President Donald Trump that his interests were in line with European allies and that showing any weakness to Russia's Vladimir Putin would make it harder to deal with China and Iran.

French President Emmanuel Macron says he intends to tell Donald Trump that it's in the joint interest of Americans and Europeans not to "be weak" in the face of Russia's Vladimir Putin, amid U.S.-led negotiations to end the almost three-year war in Ukraine.

At a meeting at the White House, President Trump declined to call President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia a dictator while President Emmanuel Macron of France stated flatly that “the aggressor is Russia.

Sitting beside the French president, Mr Trump pointedly declined to call Vladimir Putin a dictator, saying “I don’t use those words lightly.” Mr Macron seemed cautiously upbeat about his visit to the White House.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that he has not discussed resolving the conflict in Ukraine in detail with U.S. President Donald Trump and nor did Russian and American negotiating teams when they met in Saudi Arabia last week,

WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - President Donald Trump says he and French President Macron see eye to eye over the war in Ukraine. As the war in Ukraine marks its 3 year anniversary, President Trump says the U.S. and the Europe have the same goals for dealing with Russia and ending the war.