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The most important question concerns France’s political crisis and instability, as French PM Barnier faces a no-confidence vote. How do you assess the impact of this situation on support for Ukraine?

There is indeed a complicated political situation in France now, we are waiting for the designation of a new prime minister. But as the French ambassador to Ukraine, I want to emphasize an important point: there is very strong support in France to continue our politics of supporting Ukraine. This is guaranteed and decided upon by the president of the French Republic, who is going to serve until 2027. The discourse of supporting Ukraine was successfully implemented by the different governments that we had, and I'm sure it will be continued by the new French government.

And it is still implemented by the caretaker government that we have right today. This policy is based upon a very large agreement and support among the main political forces in the French National Assembly, apart from some people who would not agree with that. But there is a strong and very important majority support in the Assembly.

I am sure that our politics will continue, and there is no reason to doubt that it will be different. And we all hope that the political situation in France will be stabilized soon.

And you do not expect that military aid to Ukraine could be reduced somehow in the coming weeks or months due to the political situation in France?

Definitely no.

The President did say clearly that France was committed and would continue to support Ukraine in military areas. And we will do whatever we can and what would be needed to help the Ukrainians. So, we can even increase our support.

Moreover, we publicly announced that in the first semester