French President Emmanuel Macron has been advancing a debate on whether to send allied troops to the country.
French troops are ready for 'the toughest engagements,' the commander of the country's ground forces has said, as President Emmanuel Macron mulls an official military deployment to Ukraine despite repeated Russian threats of retaliation.In an op-ed published by French daily Le Monde on Tuesday, General Pierre Schill—France's ground forces chief—said his forces are 'ready' if called upon, and that a display of French military muscle would 'deter any attack on France.
'Foreign Intelligence Service head Sergey Naryshkin, meanwhile, claimed—without providing evidence—to have intelligence of a French plan to send 2,000 troops to Ukraine.'It will thus become a legitimate priority target for attacks by the Russian armed forces,' the spy chief said. 'This means that it will suffer the fate of all the French who have ever come to the Russian world with a sword.
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