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Originally Posted by pip08456
I wonder what Russia is going to do now?
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France has sent its first troops officially to Ukraine. They have been deployed in support of the Ukrainian 54th Independent Mechanized Brigade in Slavyansk. The French soldiers are drawn from France’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, which is one of the main elements of France’s Foreign Legion (Légion étrangère).
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https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/france...e-battlefront/
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Here’s the original article (that everyone else appears to be promulgating) on the author’s substack.
https://weapons.substack.com/p/franc...ops-to-ukraine
The link in his post supporting his assertion appears to be non-viable..
http://first%20units%20of%20the%20fr...o%20slavyansk/
Strangely enough, a similar story was published by TASS, the Russian state-owned news agency, on the same day - I wonder if that was the source of Stephen Bryen’s article?
https://tass.com/politics/1769801
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MOSCOW, April 3. /TASS/. France could bring about 1,500 servicemen to combat readiness in April for deployment to Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
"New information is emerging about the preparation by Paris of a military contingent to be sent to Ukraine. To this end, the command of the French Foreign Legion in early March approved the makeup of a battalion tactical group of about 1,500 people," she said at a news conference. "It is expected that in April the group will be brought to full combat readiness for an operational deployment to the Ukrainian theater of military operations."
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Point of information - the French 3rd Infantry Regiment are Jungle Warfare specialists, based in Guiana, South America - what value would there be in attaching them to the Ukrainian 54th Independent Mechanized Brigade, which is mainly Tanks, Artillery, and MLRS?
I am sure it is pure coincidence that this article appears just as President Xi is visiting President Macron in France…