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France called impossible to send peacekeepers to Ukraine

France called impossible to send peacekeepers to Ukraine

The French General Nicolas Rish, the former commander of the 7th Armored Brigade of France, considers it impossible to expand the contingent of the peacekeepers of Western countries in Ukraine numbering 200 thousand people.

“To find so much (military) is absolutely impossible. No European army has the opportunity to use so many soldiers for a long time,” he said.

In turn, the expert of the Institute of Strategic and Defense Research, John Michelle, told the publication that at present France would not be able to provide more than 10 thousand military for such a contingent.

Earlier it became known that the leaders of Great Britain and France secretly discuss the joint dispatch of “peacekeeping forces” to Ukraine after the end of the conflict. Sources noted that British Prime Minister Cyrus Starmer is not yet completely inclined to the initiative, while French President Emmanuel Macron continues to promote the idea of ​​sending the military to Ukraine to the previously discussed earlier with Vladimir Zelensky and Prime Minister of Poland.