The President emphasized the need to continue and increase the pace of military assistance to Ukraine because the future of the whole of Europe is at stake on the battlefield.
"We see that Western military assistance, together with the heroic resistance of Ukrainians against the brutal Kremlin regime, has become a decisive factor in the Russian-waged war. We must fight Russia's energy blackmail and step up support for Ukraine," the President said.
The two presidents also discussed the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Gitanas Nausėda pointed out that Russian military actions near Europe's largest nuclear power facility constitute a threat of nuclear catastrophe and that the international community must strongly demand the Kremlin to withdraw troops from the Zaporizhzhia site and from other occupied Ukrainian territories.
In his telephone conversation with the French leader, Gitanas Nausėda underlined that the European Union had to reach joint decisions on rising energy prices as soon as possible. The Lithuanian President noted that these measures should decouple gas and electricity prices without jeopardizing the principles of the single electricity market.
