“Under the current circumstances and the international situation, phone calls are very much in vogue, and I was surprised to see that since the beginning of this year there were already 140 phone calls with Putin,” he said. . Vladimir Putin spoke to French President Emmanuel Macron for the majority of his time on the phone. The exchanges between the two leaders this year would already reach 100 hours of call. “I obviously cannot confirm that they called each other for exactly 100 hours, but I would say that almost every conversation between Putin and Macron lasted more than an hour,” Yuri Ushakov said. “I don’t recall the two calling each other for less than an hour recently.”
According to the Kremlin official, there were also one-on-one conversations between Putin and other heads of state when they visited Moscow in the context of the invasion of Ukraine by Russians. Among these leaders are notably the presidents of Iran, Brazil, Senegal and, of course, France.