German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday that it seems clear there will be no meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Macron welcomed Merz for a working dinner at Bregancon Fort in southern France, where the leaders gave a statement to the press before their meeting.
Merz's assessment of the breakdown of relations between Zelensky and Putin comes after Russia was just hours away from killing UK workers with a double-tap rocket strike on a British Council building and the European headquarters in Kyiv.
The two buildings were struck overnight as Russia unleashed a barrage of drones and hypersonic missiles on the Ukrainian capital leaving at least 19 dead including four children, the youngest of whom was just two.
Dramatic footage shows a missile exploding in a fireball explosion at around 5.40am before a second followed 20 seconds later leaving the building 'severely damaged'.
