PARIS — French far-right leader and presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen is on board with U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to invite Russian leader Vladimir Putin to the G20 summit in Miami in December. Le Pen made clear at the same event that if she won the 2027 presidential election, France would halt all financial aid to Ukraine, though she said she was willing to maintain some form of support, including military training.
This makes it more important than ever to put an end to the conflict,” she said. The White House’s G20 invite to Putin represents the U.S.’ latest effort to reintegrate Moscow into the world’s diplomatic circuit and could lead to the Russian president’s first in-person G20 visit since 2019. But it is already proving divisive as Russian armed forces are currently hammering Kyiv with drone and missile strikes.
The EU’s foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas, a staunch Ukraine supporter, told CNN it was “very hard to hear.”
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