Macron corrects Trump over Ukraine funding claim

US President Donald Trump said Europe had loaned money to Ukraine for its war against Russia, expecting to be reimbursed.

However, French President Emmanuel Macron swiftly refuted this, clarifying France paid 60 per cent of the total defaults

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