Russian intelligence has alleged that France is preparing a military contingent of 2,000 troops to be deployed on the ground in Ukraine. The claim was made by Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergey Naryshkin on Tuesday, and was quickly picked up in international headlines, also given it is rare for him to make statements like this.
“The current leadership of the country [France] does not care about the deaths of ordinary French people or about the concerns of the generals,” Naryshkin said as translated in TASS. “According to information coming to the Russian SVR, a contingent to be sent to Ukraine is already being prepared. Initially, it will include around 2,000 troops.”
The Russian intelligence chief further said the French military “fears that such a large military unit cannot be transferred and stationed in Ukraine unnoticed.”
“It will thus become a legitimate priority target for attacks by the Russian armed forces. This means that it will suffer the fate of all the French who have ever come to the Russian world with a sword,” Naryshkin emphasized. The past months have seen instances where Moscow claimed its forces took out French mercenaries in Kharkiv, but neither the Ukraine nor France ever verified this. Russia is now saying it will target foreign troops in Ukraine as a “priority”.
He didn’t elaborate further or offer anything in the way of verification or proof, but it comes after French President Emmanuel Macron sparked fierce debate in Europe last month by telling allies they shouldn’t rule out sending Western troops to Ukraine. “Nothing should be excluded,” Macron had said. “We will do everything that we must so that Russia does not win.”
While most Western allies have voiced their rejection of a scenario of sending NATO forces to Ukraine, officials have been urging more rapid production of weapons. Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni is the latest to say that deploying Western ground troops to Ukraine must “be avoided at any cost” in Tuesday remarks.
On Monday European Council President Charles Michel called for Europe to shift to a “war economy” mode in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. “If we do not get the EU’s response right and do not give Ukraine enough support to stop Russia, we are next. We must therefore be defense-ready and shift to a ‘war economy’ mode,” Michel stated in an op-ed published in European newspapers and the Euractiv website.
According to details of the latest efforts to free up more EU funds for Ukraine:
He [Michel] urged countries to facilitate investments in defense — including by considering changing the mandate of the EU lending arm, the European Investment Bank, to allow it to support Europe’s defense industry.
EU countries approved an agreement on Monday to increase the EU’s support for Ukraine’s armed forces by 5 billion euros ($5.4 billion) — amid warnings that Kyiv’s forces need more resources to hold the line against a larger Russian army as a $60 billion US aid package for Ukraine is being held up by Congress.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell hailed the hasty cash injection by saying, “With the fund, we will continue to support Ukraine defend itself from Russia’s war of aggression with whatever it takes and for as long as we need to.” But on the battlefield things continue to look very bad for Ukraine…
Meanwhile, more negative coverage belatedly seeping into US mainstream media on just how desperate and dire the situation is for Ukraine forces at this point…
The most disturbing part of the article are these photos of high school students being readied for potential military service. pic.twitter.com/P4VzAMfcXa
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Many war analysts have said that Western efforts to ramp up arms and money to Kiev are unlikely to make a difference, and that Russia has enough ammo and manpower to sustain the fight possibly for years to come. President Putin this week has floated the idea of creating a security buffer zone to prevent drone and rocket cross-border attacks on Russian territory. This would involve seizing more Ukrainian territory, especially along its northern border areas.
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And Russia should be afraid of French troops, why?
They will have to support them all in POW camps when as usual they all surrender.
No. They don’t have to. The Russians do remember how and where to keep prisoner
Of the almost 300,000 Germans that Field Marshal von Paulus had in Stalingrad in November 1942, only about.5,000 ever lived to see Germany again.
Of the 450,000 men Napoleon had when he attacked Russia. 380,000 died in about five and a half months.
NATO’s leadership is not going to fare any better if it goes against Russia.
Isn’t that the point? How else do you postpone an election without dragging NATO into Ukraine?
To quote a Star Wars admiral…
I see dead frogs.
I see dead frogs…er…fags
Reminds me of “advisor troops” in Vietnam.
We have been brainwashed since infancy to think the Russians are our enemy.
Yet we should be natural allies. Russia has been are ally in both World Wars. We even halfheartedly supported Imperial Russia (the Whites) in their Civil War. What wars we have had with Russia are proxy wars for trying to gain total power. Ukraine is no different. The US would have to be insane to invade Russia. While not great fighters on foriegn ground, they will sacrifice to the last man, woman, and child if that is what it takes. (See Siege of Leningrad). Americans are not going to do that on foriegn soil.
Pottsylvanian.
Not Russian.
French Bullwinkle “Hey Rockie? Watch me pull an army out of my ass?”
Macron “Hey Rockie? Watch me pull my wife’s ____ out of my ___.”
French troops are not known for their fighting prowess, see WW2 and Vietnam. So, when they get decimated by Russia that will be the signal for the rest of NATO to send troops to save the day….and start WW3.
Well…I do like my Frog legs deep fried said Barbeque the new Haitian war lord…
Cool. We get to see in real-time another Dien Bien Phu, by the Frenchies. Clown World at it’s finest.
If you recall, The US Air Force was flying the resupply and dropping Frog paratroopers into Dien Bien Phu. The best book about the French Indochina war is Bernard Fall’s “Street Without Joy” which referred to the road through the A Shau Valley in what we called I Corps. One may recall the beginning of the film “We Were Soldiers” which portrayed the defeat in detail of Mobile Group 100. It’s all in the book. Fall, a French veteran, was killed reporting from Vietnam with the USMC around 1968.
I see that you may be a connoisseur of the M1 Garand, with your moniker… Yeah, Dien Bien Phu was another debacle funded by that POS mid-wit Allen Dulles and his dullards at the CIA.
“President Putin this week has floated the idea of creating a security buffer zone to prevent drone and rocket cross-border attacks on Russian territory. This would involve seizing more Ukrainian territory, especially along its northern border areas.”
So why didn’t the Chessmaster™ keep that territory in the summer of 2022? Why has the border been so porous so far?
France is preparing a crack military contingent of 2,000 troops to be wiped out by suicide drone attacks, which will take place a few minutes arriving on the battlefield of Ukraine.
The name of these “crackhead: troops?
“The French Seppuku Brigade”
Their shield?
A cross made of seppaku blades.
The entire battalion was awarded purple stars, posthumously.
[Yes, I meant purple stars, not hearts]
Because purple hearts are for heroes?
So Satan wants us to wish for dead Frenchmen.
Damn.
The French refused to fight unless they get cheese and wine.
Well they were given their cheese and wine, and then they ran away all the way to Dunkirk and drowned in the sea.
Darndest thing I ever saw.
The running of the French lemmings.
Used to be a repeating deal until they ran out of manly men.
Simpsons coming in with the jokes..
Does France still have the “Foreign Legion”?
I knew an asshole staff sergeant who claimed he was in the FFL , and claimed could break my wrist with two fingers. He couldn’t .
“Rocky watch me pull a lesion out of my ass!”
Yes, and many of them are Russian. Should be interesting.
“They” have been playing us peons with that kind of fucking bullshit for far too long. We’re next my ass. My guess is “they” want to build a “war economy” so they can turn the results of doing that on the people in the EU, not on Russia. The people of the EU have been rising up in larger and larger numbers for several years now because they are sick and tired of the globalist horse shit been shoved down their throats. The cabal currently running things in the EU (i.e. the Davos/WEF crowd) know damn well their days are numbered so expect them to do anything to remain in power, including building up their armed forces ostensibly to fight Russia only to turn those forces on their own people to prevent a revolt.
“French rifles…CHEAP! Only dropped once.”
“We’re gong to have to fight the French? Oh, shit! We are DOOMED!!!”
—– From the book titled, “Things no one from any country has said, ever.”
Will the faggot Macron do it? It won’t endanger him in any way, so he hasn’t any personal skin in the game. He hasn’t produced any children with his quite elderly…. …. Ehh … … wife… so… maybe?
elderberries come to mind
A brigade in Yewcrane? Just a diversion for the WEPH-NWO stooge.
How many fifth columnist divisions awaiting in France for the balloon to go up?