No, the French President did not declare the Minsk agreements as ‘worthless’

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The French President made a stark speech to the nation, where he called Russia a threat to France and Europe, and said Moscow can no longer be trusted as it violated the Minsk agreements by starting the war in Ukraine. Barely 24 hours later, pro-Russian accounts have spread misinformation that President Macron himself called the agreements “worthless” back in 2022, by using out-of-context and selective footage from a documentary. Vedika Bahl fact-checks in this edition of Truth or Fake.