FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 24, 2017. France is thousands of miles from Ukraine, but what happens in French voting stations this month could have repercussions in Ukrainian battlefields. Nationalist candidate Marine Le Pen wants to halt arms supplies to Ukraine, improve Western ties with Russia and weaken the EU and NATO, which would undermine long-held Western alliances and efforts to stop the war (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)