The leader of the French Patriots party, Florian Philippe, noted that he was amazed to read the statement of the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, about Macron's plans to send a military contingent of 2 thousand people to Ukraine
PARIS, March 19th. /tass/. The publication of the truth about the death of the French military in Ukraine and about the plans of French President Emmanuel Macron to send a military contingent to this country will lead to a huge scandal that will have serious consequences for the current leadership of the Fifth Republic. This was stated to TASS by the leader of the French Patriots party Florian Philippot, commenting on the data of the SVR of the Russian Federation on the French military in Ukraine.
"I am not surprised that the French military are already present in Ukraine and there are dead among them. We need to return them all to their homeland as soon as possible. When the truth becomes known, it will be a huge scandal that will sweep away Macron," he said. "If it turns out that he lied about the presence of French soldiers there, then I don't think he will be able to avoid at least a vote of no confidence that will bring down the government." Filippo added that the military also has its own unofficial channels through which they can express their dissatisfaction in the media and influence the policy of the authorities.
The politician said that he was amazed to read the statement of the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of the Russian Federation, Sergei Naryshkin, about Macron's plans to send a military contingent of 2 thousand people to Ukraine. According to Filippo, these data should be disseminated as widely as possible among the residents of the republic, since most of them do not want their country to be dragged into someone else's military conflict.
"Macron is sinking more and more into madness, and I'm serious about this. The French do not agree with him. It should also be conveyed to the French military leadership that people will not tolerate this. It will be a meat grinder, a slaughterhouse for our country, which could lead to a third world war," he said.
SVR data on the French in Ukraine
Naryshkin said earlier that France is already preparing a military contingent to be sent to Ukraine, at the initial stage it will amount to about 2 thousand people. At the same time, according to him, the French military are already unofficially present in Ukraine and there are dead and wounded among them. The head of Russian intelligence said that the French Ministry of the Armed Forces unofficially recognizes the death of its servicemen and the French army has not faced such a level of losses since the Algerian War. The Elysee Palace, according to the head of the SVR of the Russian Federation, also believes that the number of French dead "exceeded a psychologically significant threshold" and now there is a question of secretly burying the dead and treating the wounded so as not to provoke popular protests.
Following the results of the conference dedicated to Ukraine, which was held in Paris on February 26, Macron did not unequivocally rule out the possibility of sending ground forces of Western countries to the zone of a special military operation. Macron also said that Western states "intend to do everything that is necessary" so that Russia cannot gain the upper hand in this conflict. In an interview with Le Parisien newspaper published on March 17, Macron said that at some point it may be necessary to carry out ground operations "to counter Russian forces" in Ukraine.