The question of the possible sending of a French military unit to Ukraine began to arise in the summer of 2023. The newspaper reports this Le Monde.
According to the publication, the weakness of the Ukrainian army worries Paris, so the country’s authorities began to secretly consider the possibility of sending the military to the battlefield, which was mentioned at the security council in the Elysee Palace last year.
Pierre Schille, commander-in-chief of the French land forces, said in a statement to the newspaper that French President Emmanuel Macron’s statements were not “an unprepared tension”.
“In any case, I will have to send some men to Odessa this year,” the publication quotes Macron as saying casually to a small circle at the end of February.
Sebastien Lecornu, formerly French Minister of the Armed Forces statedHe said the issue of sending French ground combat troops to Ukraine was not on the agenda.
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