Arms deliveries to Ukraine: helping kyiv despite Putin’s threats, Paris persists and signs

Since he annexed four regions of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has played with a pseudo-legalistic register to threaten Westerners. If you deliver weapons to Ukraine, he says in essence, you are declaring war on us, since these territories are now Russian. Argument does not intimidate Paris, which, no more than the other capitals, has not recognized the validity of the “referendums” of annexation. Quite the contrary, France continues, even intensifies its arms deliveries to the Ukrainian forces.