French President Emmanuel Macron is trying to convince President Trump to revive western “colonialism” in Syria, according to Russia’s top diplomat.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov criticized Macron by name over the French president’s recent push for Trump to abandon plans for a sudden withdrawal from Syria. Russia, which rescued Syrian President Bashar Assad from the brink of defeat in the civil war, wants the United States to leave the war-torn country, which is divided largely into areas controlled by pro-Assad forces or by the U.S.-led coalition to defeat the Islamic State in Syria.