PARIS: Russia has "already lost geopolitically" its war on Ukraine and is effectively becoming a vassal state of China, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview published on Sunday.

"De facto, it has entered a form of subservience with regard to China and has lost its access to the Baltic, which was critical, because it prompted the decision by Sweden and Finland to join NATO," Macron told the Opinion newspaper, using the acronym of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

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