TIRANA, May 17, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday said he was sure that US counterpart Donald Trump would "react" to Russian President Vladimir Putin's "cynicism" on Ukraine following the latest Russian drone attack on its neighbour.

"Faced with the cynicism of President Putin I am sure that President Trump, mindful of the credibility of the United States of America, will react," Macron said during a visit to Albania.

"A president was elected by the American people. He arrived with a laudable ambition: to make peace. And he said he would engage everyone in making peace," Macron added.

On Friday, Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called on Trump to denounce Russia's "refusal" of a ceasefire and to increase pressure on Moscow.

"The ceasefire proposals, which I remind you are an American initiative, have not been respected by President Putin and his armies," Macron insisted on Saturday.

"We put together the coalition of the willing, then together called President Trump, saying: 'look, we're all behind the ceasefire, we shall all recommit ourselves behind a coalition of the willing with security guarantees'," Macron stressed during his trip to Tirana, which hosted a summit of European leaders on Friday.

Just hours after the summit concluded, and a day after peace talks in Istanbul, where Russian and Ukrainian delegations agreed on a major prisoner exchange but did not announce a ceasefire, a Russian drone attack on a minibus carrying civilians killed nine people and wounded four others in northern Ukraine.