Paris, 23 Mar Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated in a message to France that “stopping the war is in your hands” and urged him to convince Russia to seek peace and to support Kiev's desire to join the European Union. “I would like to ask you a question: How to stop the war? How to establish peace in Ukraine? Because most of the questions and answers are in your hands,” he said in a video intervention before a solemn session of the two chambers of the French Parliament. As he has done in other messages to parliaments in other countries, Zelenski called for European countries to do more to stop the war. “We have looked for reason in the dispatches and we are obliged to look for it on the battlefield,” he regretted. And while he thanked France's support for Ukraine, he did not fail to emphasize that “French companies must leave Russia” and stop financing the invasion. He also acknowledged “the continued leadership” of French President Emmanuel Macron in the search for peace, although he urged more international efforts to convince Russia to abandon its offensive and called for more military aid in the face of “the Russian war machine.” The Ukrainian president widely recalled the atrocities that his Government accuses Russian troops of having committed, such as the bombing of the Mariupol maternity and children's hospital or the rape of women. CHIEF rcf-mgr/fpa