Russian SVR report: "Hundreds of dead French soldiers in Ukraine - Paris has not seen such casualties since the war in Algeria"

Russian SVR report: "Hundreds of dead French soldiers in Ukraine - Paris has not seen such casualties since the war in Algeria"

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Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is declassifying a report by an agent who said in March that France was preparing to send a group of around 2,000 troops to fight in Ukraine.

The update was published in the latest issue of SVR's 'Scout' magazine.

In it, an agent using the pseudonym Felix claimed that the French military was "concerned about the increased number of French people killed on the Ukrainian front" , particularly after Russian forces destroyed a temporary mercenary deployment center near Kharkiv last January.

That strike alone killed "dozens of French citizens," Paris reportedly estimated, noting that since then, similar attacks "have become the norm in the conflict in Ukraine."

The French Ministry of Defense has acknowledged that it has not seen such casualties since the war in Algeria in the second half of the 20th century,according to Felix's encrypted cable.

The SVR agent reported that the exact number of casualties and the idea that there are any French soldiers in Ukraine at all is being deliberately concealed by the French authorities.

They fear that the number of victims has "crossed the psychologically significant threshold" and that their publication could cause mass public protests and resentment among serving officers.

Despite these issues, Felix said that "French authorities are nevertheless preparing a contingent to send to Ukraine ," claiming that this group was initially planned to include around 2,000 troops.

After all, French President Emmanuel Macron has long hinted that his country could send troops to fight alongside Kiev.