A few weeks ago, Emmanuel Macron said: It is not completely impossible for French soldiers to go to Ukraine in the long term. Nowadays there are more and more reports on both Russian and Western pages indicating that it will be in the short term. Russia accused France yesterday that the operation is already in the preparation stage and that Paris is preparing to send 2,000 soldiers to Ukraine, which the French government denied.
Ivan Sztopak, a former Ukrainian Security Service officer and current National Security Advisor to the Ukrainian Parliament, also spoke of the French operation as an imminent possibility: He said that French soldiers would certainly not fight the Russians, but they would help the Ukrainians do so.
Stupak believes that it is: French They will be stationed on the border between Moldova and Belarus (The Russian attack could come from both countries.) Capacity would thus be freed up for Ukrainian forces so they could send soldiers to the front.
He also went on to say that the French might also help maintain military vehicles and equipment, but he said that at the same time He sees no point in training Ukrainian soldiers by Macron's men, because he believes that the Ukrainian armed forces are already more experienced than French soldiers.
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