On Sunday night, Mr Macron said that France and Britain were proposing a four-week truce in Ukraine “in the air, at sea and on energy infrastructure” but not, initially at least, covering ground fighting. France insists a one-month truce between Russia and Ukraine would test Vladimir Putin’s “good faith” in wishing to “end this war”.

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