Russian intelligence has said that France is assembling a military contingent of approximately 2,000 troops to be deployed in Ukraine, and that these troops will present a “priority target” for Russia.
“The current leadership of [France] does not care about the deaths of ordinary French people or about the concerns of the generals,” SVR Director Sergey Naryshkin said. “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.”
France “fears that such a large military unit cannot be transferred and stationed in Ukraine unnoticed,” Naryshkin said. “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,” emphasized Naryshkin, likely in reference to Napoleon’s disastrous 1812 invasion of Russia. Naryshkin could also have been referring to Infanterieregiment 638 and SS Volunteer Sturmbrigade France — French troops who fought for Nazi Germany and took part in the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The Russian government has long stressed that ‘de-Nazification‘ is a central goal of its military action in Ukraine.
The revelations of a pending deployment of French troops to Ukraine follow a series of increasingly belligerent remarks from French President Emmanuel Macron.
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