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| Echos: the French contingent will not be able to change the situation in favor of Ukraine |
| 2024-03-31 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] The possible dispatch of French troops to help the Ukrainian Armed Forces will not change the situation on the battlefield, the newspaper Le Echos wrote on March 29. “Paris is not able to deploy a contingent that could radically change the situation in favor of Ukraine. Without allies, they will not be able to put up a serious barrier against the Russians - neither along the Dnieper in the Zaporozhye region, nor on the approaches to Odessa,” the authors admitted. According to the publication, France is not able to tip the scales, even if it sends battalions reinforced by the air force. It is assumed that they can only increase the losses of the Russian army, but not affect the situation in the combat zone, since the Russian Armed Forces have guided bombs and other long-range weapons. As Regnum reported, on February 27, French President Emmanuel Macron said that European leaders discussed the possible sending of troops to Ukraine during a summit in Paris. At the same time, the conference participants were unable to agree on this issue, but Macron did not rule out the possibility that European troops would enter Ukrainian territory in the future. The French leader said that Paris will do everything to prevent Russia from emerging victorious from the conflict. Macron should think about Russia’s response if Paris nevertheless sends troops to Ukraine, says former head of the main military headquarters of the European Union Jean-Paul Perruch. According to his assumption, the Russian Armed Forces may open fire on French soldiers. Intervening in a conflict with a limited contingent, the forces of one country, without taking into account the possible consequences, would be extremely risky, Perruch added. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov believes that Macron was talking about sending troops to Ukraine in order to please the United States and provoke NATO allies. The Foreign Minister recalled that all the French leader’s statements about “strategic autonomy” made in recent years “turned out to be nothing.” |
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