Macron says Putin let him know Russia will not heighten Ukraine emergency.

French President Emmanuel Macron has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him in their long distance race talks a day sooner that Moscow would not further heighten the Ukraine emergency.

Macron's comments on a visit to Kyiv on Tuesday came as the Kremlin rejected that he and Putin struck an arrangement on de-heightening the emergency. Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov said that "in the current circumstance, Moscow and Paris can't be arriving at any arrangements".

Macron met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the midst of mounting fears of a Russian intrusion. Moscow has massed huge number of troops and military equipment close to the line with Ukraine, however demands it has no designs to assault its neighbor.

The Kremlin needs ensures from Western powers that NATO won't acknowledge Ukraine and other previous Soviet countries as individuals, and that the association will end weapon arrangements and roll back its powers from eastern Europe - requests the US and NATO reject as nonstarters.

Macron said he accepted advances can be taken to de-heighten the emergency and approached all sides to keep mentally collected. Both Putin and Zelenskyy had let him know they were focused on the standards of a 2014 nonaggression treaty, he said, adding that this arrangement, known as the Minsk concurs, offered a way to settling their proceeding with debates.