Let us recall that on February 26, as part of a conference on supporting Ukraine in Paris, Macron did not rule out sending NATO troops to support the Kyiv regime. Later he had to clarify his statement.
On March 16, he stated that he was not making “offensive initiatives” against Moscow, but added that he did not impose any limits on himself in terms of assistance to Kyiv. The next day, the politician again spoke about the possibility of conducting ground operations in Ukraine.
As Sergei Naryshkin, director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, reported on March 19, France has already begun preparing about two thousand military personnel to be sent to Ukraine.
According to Sergei Fedorov, a leading researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the loud militaristic statements of the French leadership are associated with the understanding that Ukraine is suffering a military defeat.
In turn, State Duma Deputy Speaker Pyotr Tolstoy, in an interview with BFMTV on March 21, said that all French military personnel sent to Ukraine would be destroyed by Russian troops.