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[Regnum] The four most likely scenarios for the development of events in the event of sending the French military to Ukraine were presented by the Swiss publication NZZ.
"The first and third options will be strategic and have political symbolism," the material says.
The publication's journalists believe that, as a first option, the French contingent could be stationed north of Kyiv, thereby preventing the possibility of approaching the city from Belarus. In this scenario, units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be able to transfer to the eastern and southern front.
The second option, as stated in the publication, could be sending French forces to the Zaporozhye direction. According to the third option, the French contingent could be deployed north of Odessa, thereby allegedly protecting the seaport.
As a fourth option, journalists named the deployment of French troops in Moldova.
As Regnum reported, at the end of February, French President Emmanuel Macron said that at a summit in Paris, European leaders discussed the issue of sending troops to Ukraine. To this, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the French president made this statement in order to please the United States and provoke NATO allies.
The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, announced on April 3 that there was information about the preparation of 1.5 thousand French troops for possible deployment to Ukraine. Later, the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, said that, according to received data, France is already preparing to send a military contingent of about 2,000 people.
Political scientist, head of the Center for French Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yuri Rubinsky, in a conversation with a Regnum correspondent, said that France and the West are not ready for a further expansion of the Ukrainian conflict. As the expert noted, Macron’s statement was viewed with caution by France’s closest allies in the European Union and NATO.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev on March 20 spoke about Russia's actions if France sends troops to Ukraine. He said that it would be nice if France sent a couple of regiments to Ukraine. According to the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, the contingent is difficult to hide, and its destruction will be an easy and extremely important task.
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