Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a phone conversation with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron ahead of the next meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in the Ramstein format, according to the official website of the Ukrainian president. Zelenskyy described the conversation with Macron as long and substantive. The Ukrainian president also congratulated the French leader on the appointment of the new Prime Minister, Michel Barnier. “The President of France expressed his condolences to the Ukrainian people over the Russian strikes on Lviv, Poltava, and other cities and commu…