Milan, 24 February (LaPresse) – "This war is a triple failure for Russia: military, economic and strategic. It has strengthened NATO, whose expansion it wanted to prevent, united the Europeans it wanted to weaken, and exposed the fragility of an imperialism from another era. Since Ukraine is our continent's first line of defence, France and Europe stand resolutely by its side." French President Emmanuel Macron wrote this in a post on X published in French, Ukrainian and English on the fourth anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.