Zelensky meets Macron seeking air defence deal for Ukraine: AFP

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Monday met France's Emmanuel Macron at an air base outside Paris, seeking a major deal to acquire French air defence hardware including fighter jets, an AFP correspondent said.

Zelensky, who has suffered setbacks over the last week due to a corruption scandal at home and Russian forces closing in on the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, wrote on X ahead of the talks that he expects the meeting to result in a "historic deal".

At the Villacoublay air base, Zelensky is to inspect Rafale fighter jets and its weaponry, the next-generation SAMP-T air defence system and several drone systems before holding talks with the French president.

A letter of intent on the air defence accord, the precise c

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