Official Paris continues to consider Russia's "appropriation" of Crimea and other occupied territories of Ukraine to be categorically illegal, French President Emmanuel Macron said. Source: European Pravda, referring to Macron's statement in a remote speech at the summit of the Crimean Platform Details: The French president emphasised that Russia's annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol was completely illegal and violated the basic principles of international law, and the situation on the peninsula