French President Emmanuel Macron during the military exercises of the French armyMOSCOW, Feb. 27More than 9.5 thousand French soldiers will be mobilized or put on alert due to the situation in Ukraine, of which 1.5 thousand soldiers will participate in missions to strengthen NATO on the eastern flank, Agence France-Presse reports with reference to the General Staff. According to According to him, about 500 French troops will be deployed in Romania. There are already 300 French soldiers in Estonia and about 100 more will arrive accompanied by four Mirage 2000-5 fighters, which, according to the agency's military source, are intended to «strengthen the air defense of the Baltic countries.» About 600 military personnel are also involved in flights over Poland, since February 24, France has been participating in the «defense of the Polish sky» and has been performing two sorties a day. «More than 1.5 thousand French soldiers will directly participate in missions to strengthen NATO's position on the eastern flank» , — said a source of the agency in the French General Staff. In addition, approximately 8,000 French troops are «in a state of combat readiness as part of the NATO rapid reaction force,» the source said.
Scholz stated the need to strengthen NATO's eastern flankRussia launched a military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine early on Thursday, February 24. In a televised address to the Russians, President Vladimir Putin said that circumstances «require decisive and immediate action from us, the people's republics of Donbass have asked for help.» According to the Russian leader, all responsibility for the bloodshed will be on the conscience of the ruling regime in Ukraine. He urged the Ukrainian military not to follow the criminal orders of the Ukrainian authorities, to lay down their arms and go home.The development of the situation — in the online report >>Posted by: Pavel Stukov
