Emmanuel Macron

French President Emmanuel Macron has landed in New Caledonia, ready to talk with locals and restore order in the troubled region.

Some of Kyiv’s Western allies are already training soldiers in Ukraine, according to Estonia’s prime minister.

Demonstrations, marches, arson, a prison kidnapping and confrontations with security forces have spread throughout the French Pacific territory.

Macron government will be swept from power if Russian claims are substantiated, French opposition figure asserts.

If Polish troops enter western Ukraine, they will ‘stay there forever,’ Russian leader asserts.

Officials hail Paris’s efforts to ‘think outside the box’ following Russian battlefield gains in Donetsk.

French opposition, meanwhile, voices concern over the president’s increasingly hawkish rhetoric.

Emmanuel Macron makes suggestion at hastily arranged meeting of EU leaders in Paris.

After Vladimir Putin visits Kazakhstan, a key Russian ally, foreign minister accuses ‘collective West’ of meddling in Russia’s backyard.