A new attempt at “mass disinformation” coming from Russia? In any case, this is what the Ministry of the Armed Forces says, which very quickly denied this Tuesday March 19 “the information relayed by Sergey Naryshkin, director of Russian foreign intelligence.”
In question, a dispatch published by the Russian state news agency TASS. This states that “France is preparing to send a military contingent of 2,000 men to Ukraine”, according to Moscow’s external intelligence. “The country’s current leadership does not care about the deaths of ordinary French people or the concerns of its generals. According to Russian intelligence information, a contingent to be sent to Ukraine is already being prepared. Initially, it will include around 2,000 soldiers,” declared Sergey Naryshkin, who warned that this contingent “will become a priority and legitimate target for attacks by the Russian armed forces.”
Instrumentalizing Macron’s controversial remarks
“We call for the greatest vigilance in order to avoid any exploitation by this type of maneuver,” affirmed the Ministry of the Armed Forces, while Emmanuel Macron continues to agitate for several weeks the possibility of the intervention of French armed forces on Ukrainian territory. “Perhaps at some point – I don’t want it, I won’t take the initiative – it will be necessary to have operations on the ground, whatever they may be, to counter the Russian forces. The force of France, is that we can do it”, he again affirmed in an interview with Parisian published this Saturday March 16.
Statements that stir up debates in France and Europe. And on which Russia visibly intends to take advantage to continue its strategy of dividing the Western camp, while Emmanuel Macron has become one of the privileged targets of the Kremlin’s state propaganda, insulted as a “zoological creep” a few years ago. days by former President Dmitry Medvedev.