After Putin - Biden, German and French leaders want to meet the Russian President, but not all European countries are excited about this idea.

Before the skepticism, especially from the same border countries with Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Prime Minister Angela Merkel on June 24, confirmed the proposal to meet their Russian President Vladimir Putin as foreign action

In my opinion, we, as the European Union, also need to promote directly with Russia and the Russian President, Merkel said before flying to Brussels to meet with EU leaders.

Only US President Joe Biden talked to the Russian President was not enough.

German Prime Minister Angela Merkel (left), French President Macron (middle) and President Putin at the conference in Paris in 2019. Photo: AFP.

Some European leaders have criticized this proposal, saying it can impress that the West is giving through the actions to be considered to cause Russian uncertainties to neighboring countries.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov spokesman said Russia welcomed the idea of the summit with European leaders.

The coldness between allies, and the recent encounter between Russian patrol ships and the British destroyer in the Black Sea, shows that difficulties that Biden and European leaders encounter in stabilizing relations with MOSKVA

In recent years, Macron constantly tries to improve relations with Russia, when Moskva is closer to Beijing.

The EU once led to olive as Russia when appointing representative of Josep Borrell Foreign Policy to Moskva earlier this year.

On June 23, Russia announced that it was fired to score a British destroyer near Crimea, the Russian peninsula made merger from Ukraine in 2014. The Kremlin accused British warships to violate the territorial sea.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson stressed their actions to prove that the law existed and affirmed that he was true to enforce maritime freedom.

Meanwhile, Peskov calls this as his intentional provocation.

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Kremlin analysts described the incident in a way to express to the local people that the West was an aggressive party.

For Russia, confrontation relations do not matter, because that increases their importance, Agnieszka Legucka, an analyst at the Institute of Poland International Issues, Consultants in Warsaw, receiving

Since he left the EU, the countries were always doubtful as Poland lost a partner to understand our fears and had the same views on the threat from Russia, she said.

The NATO Summit last week reaffirmed the Alliance's commitment to deterrence and defended before any threat from Russia.