France will equip several Ukrainian battalions with dozens of armored vehicles and light tanks

2023-05-15 01:02:00

French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with the newspaper on Sunday L’Opinionwhich Russia already had “geopolitically lost” the war in Ukraine. “Let’s be clear, this is not a ‘special operation’ since Vladimir Putin decided to mobilize. Moreover, Russia has cast doubt on its historical allies, its first rank corset. It de facto started a form of vassalization with regard to China and it lost access to the Baltic, which was critical for it, since it precipitated the Swedish and Finnish choice to join NATO [Organisation du traité de l’Atlantique Nord] »explained the president, who is about to receive the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, expected Sunday evening in Paris.

“It was unthinkable even two years ago. It is therefore already a geopolitical defeat. Let’s be factual, Russia must not win the military war. And there, it is up to us to see how to help the Ukrainians in their counter-offensive, how to prepare the question of the security guarantees of the negotiations that there will inevitably be.he continued. “I have always said that in the long term, the European security architecture will have to fully secure the Ukraine of tomorrow. But it will have to design a non-confrontation with Russia and rebuild sustainable balances. But there are still a lot of steps to get there”he added.