Less than a week ago, SouthFront reported that Paris was already training the special battalion tactical group assigned for Ukraine. On March 19, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin confirmed the reports. He claimed that Paris is already preparing the military personnel for deployment in Ukraine. At the initial stage, France is going to send about 2, 000 servicemen to the war-torn country.
The Russian SVR recieved the data that France is already preparing the units for the battles on the Ukrainian battlefields.
According to the Director of the Russian foreign intelligence, the French military fears that it will be too hard to hide and secure the transfer of such a large unit of French forces to Ukraine, as well as to secretly accommodate foreign servicemen on the Ukrainian territory. The French unit is a legitimate and priority target for Russian precision strikes. Thus, the French servicemen risk to immediately face “the fate of all Frenchmen who have ever come to the territory of the Russian world with a sword.”
“The current leadership of France does not care about the death of ordinary Frenchmen and the concerns of the generals.”
The French army is now concerned about the increased number of French citizens killed in Ukraine. Only the destruction of the temporary deployment point of foreigners near Kharkov on January 17 resulted in deaths of dozens of French citizens, and since then such strikes have become frequent in the Ukrainian conflict.
The French military leadership is also concerned about the growing discontent among the current middle-level officers of the French army. The rate of their deaths is disproportionately high. At the same time the French military faced the problem of finding new “volunteers” to rotate and replace those already fighting in Ukrainian.
As unofficially recognized by the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, the country has not known such losses abroad since the war in Algeria in the second half of the 20th century.
“As they say in the Elysee Palace, the number of French dead has already exceeded a psychologically significant threshold.”
The release of such sensitive data can provoke citizens to protest, especially amid the ongoing mass protests by farmers across the country.
“Sooner or later, Macron will have to reveal the ugly truth, but he will strive to delay confessions as much as possible.”
Paris is carefully hiding not only the number of casualties, but also the very fact of the involvement of the French military in the hostilities in Ukraine. That’s why Paris is rushing to find solutions to the most persistent problems like burying the dead, compensation to families and pensions for the disabled. All this requires proper documentation, and further “double accounting of deaths” is fraught with lawsuits from disgruntled relatives.
“President Emmanuel Macron, who announced the possibility of sending military personnel to Ukraine, should read the memoirs of Konstantin Paustovsky in order to get rid of “insane paranoid dreams.” In particular, the following lines: “At that time I felt a cruel resentment for France and for the French… They were cruelly humiliated by the political bullies of France and their representative, the cocky General D’Anselme.”
The claims by the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence confirmed the reports by SouthFront, according to which, the French military is already conducting the combat training of the special tactical battalion group for Ukraine. The training is ongoing on the training ground la Courtine. The group should include about 1,500 servicemen of the French Foreign Legion, but Paris failed to find enough servicemen ready for their deployment in Ukraine. That’s why the French military leadership was forced to fill the ranks of the group with personnel from the Ministry of the Armed Forces. LINK
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Moreover, last night, two planes with French military was spotted landing at Sofia airport in Bulgaria. The group likely included about 500 servicemen. The French got on the closed trucks. The drivers, who locals were not told where they were going. They are supposedly traveling through Romania – Izmail – Odessa.
The official claims by the Russian SVR is a response to Macron’s policy. Moscow warned the French military leadership that the Russians are aware of what is happening on the French territory. Foreign servicemen will have much less chances to hide from the Russians in Ukrainian rear and risk to be destroyed by precision strikes before they come to the frontlines.