French President Emmanuel Macron issued a chilling warning after a phone call with Vladimir Putin that the “worst is yet to come” and there is “nothing in what President Putin said that could reassure us.”

An unnamed French presidential aide told AFP that after a 90 minute phone call with Putin the Russian leader is “lying” to himself and is making a “major mistake” in Ukraine.

In the long term the war in Ukraine will cost Russia dearly as Putin vowed to keep on fighting, on Thursday.

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Putin warned that if talks with Ukrainian officials do not go his way he could add to his demands, according to the Kremlin.

Putin believes that there are “attempts to buy time by dragging out the negotiations” and warned this “would only lead to additional demands on Kyiv in our negotiating position.”

Putin’s office quoted him telling Macron, “Russia intends to continue the uncompromising fight against militants of nationalist armed groups.”

They echoed the unsubstantiated “de-Nazification” rationale that Putin cited when he launched the attack on 24 February last week.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video statement, “We will restore every house, every street, every city and we say to Russia: learn the word ‘reparations’

“You will reimburse us for everything you did against our state, against every Ukrainian, in full.”