The French president has reportedly ordered a contingent of 2,000 soldiers to prepare to help Kiev, according to Russian intelligence<\/p>\n
French President Emmanuel Macron is preparing to intervene militarily in Ukraine, Russia\u2019s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has claimed. In a statement published on Monday, the agency\u2019s press department suggested that he desperately wants to leave his mark on history.\u00a0\u00a0
\n\u201cHaving failed as a politician and despaired of ever pulling the country out of the long social and economic crisis, he does not give up the hope to go down in history as a military leader,\u201d the SVR claimed, adding that Macron \u201cdreams of a military intervention in Ukraine\u201d and is \u201cknown for fantasizing about Napoleon\u2019s \u2018laurels\u2019.\u201d\u00a0
\nAccording to the SVR, the French General Staff has reportedly already been instructed to form a contingent of up to 2,000 troops \u201cfor deployment in Ukraine.\u201d The core of this force is expected to be made up of troops from the French Foreign Legion, mainly recruited from Latin American countries.\u00a0
\nThe SVR stated that Legion personnel are already deployed in regions of Poland bordering Ukraine, where they are undergoing \u201cintensive joint combat training\u201d and receiving weapons and equipment. Their transfer to central Ukraine has reportedly been scheduled in the near future.<\/p>\n
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The agency also said that France has already begun preparing for casualties, with \u201chundreds of additional hospital beds\u201d reportedly being created to accommodate wounded soldiers, while French medics are said to be receiving field training to handle combat injuries.\u00a0
\nParis intends to describe the deployment as limited to instructors for the Ukrainian army in the event it becomes public, the SVR stated.
\nThe intelligence service went on to compare Macron\u2019s ambitions to those of historical figures who fought Russia in the past, such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Swedish King Charles XII.\u00a0
\nIt added that while the French leader dreams of mirroring those leaders\u2019 accomplishments, he appears to have forgotten that their campaigns ended in defeat.\u00a0
\n\u201cHistory teaches nothing, it only punishes for lessons not learnt,\u201d the SVR statement concluded, citing Russian historian Vasily Klyuchevsky.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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