French President Emmanuel Macron has upset the Kremlin after calling Russian President Vladimir Putin an “ogre” and a “predator,” according to Reuters. “For his own survival, [Putin] needs to keep eating,” Macron said after meeting with President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on August 18. “That means he is a predator, an ogre at our gates.” Russia, which is currently waging a war in Ukraine, accused the Frenchman of lobbing “low-grade insults.” “This is unworthy of a head of state,” said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. This week, Putin’s armed forces killed 23 people, including four children, in an overnight blitz involving 600 drones and over 30 ballistic and cruise missiles that also damaged the British Council and European Union offices in Kyiv. It was the largest attack on Kyiv since President Donald Trump failed to secure a ceasefire with Putin at a bilateral summit in Anchorage, Alaska.
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