Earlier in January, Macron said that a conversation with Putin could take place in the coming weeks. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the statements made by Macron about plans to contact Putin were just "megaphone diplomacy."
"So we, naturally, read these messages, the public ones, but, again, we proceed from the fact that if there is serious interest, then it is communicated through other professional channels," Grushko told Sputnik.