AUTHOR: TYLER DURDEN
French president Emmanuel Macron is busy working on a controversial fresh initiative meetings of army of soldiers from NATO countries to be sent to Ukraine.
For now, the plan is to send western soldiers as training officers and military advisors to the armed forces of Ukraine, with training likely to take place in the west destroyed by the country's war, or at least distant from the front line.
"Paris has been working with Ukrainians on this substance for any time now" – She said "Financial Times"person acquainted with the French initiative. However, this plan was not formally launched by NATO leaders. "The definite view is that it makes sense, technically... But this will not be a NATO initiative," explained the source. This was due to the fact that many NATO states have expressed an aversion or even overt disapproval, fearing an unnecessary confrontation with Russia and an uncontrolled escalation that would straight put the Western troops in danger.
According to more details of Macron's plan via FT:
President Emmanuel Macron is expected will present France's plan to send military instructors next Thursday, erstwhile he will host Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenski in Normandy along with another leaders, including US president Joe Biden, on the 80th anniversary of D-Day, according to people acquainted with the case.
Macron's proposal would presume that French soldiers would train Ukrainian personnel to tasks specified as mining and repair and maintenance of military equipment. This could end in involving tens or hundreds of soldiers.
It appears that hawks, anti-Moscow Baltic States, Estonia and Lithuania, have signed up to Macron's plan. A period ago Estonia stated that"seriously" discusses sending troops to Ukraine.
Since then, the French government has said that it has been working with Kiev to effort to realize their exact needs for training and advisory activities.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz was 1 of the first to effort to inform against the script of "foot on the ground" as early as February. "What has been agreed between us and each another from the very beginning besides concerns the future, namely that There will be no land troops, no soldiers on Ukrainian dirt sent there by European countries or NATO states," he said.
Interestingly, Russian state media indicate fresh words from Kiev officials who claimed that French troops were already on their way to Ukraine. By RT:
The first group of French military instructors is on their way to Ukraine - reported Ukrainian MP Alexey Goncharenko on Friday. This happened only a fewer days after the ultimate commander of Ukraine Alexander Syrski announced that he had completed the formalities facilitating the presence of French personnel in the country.
"My sources have informed me that the first group of French instructors are on their way to Ukraine" Goncharenko, a associate of the Ukrainian Parliament and a delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, wrote on Friday evening on X (formerly Twitter).
Russia warned that it would mark NATO personnel and equipment found in Ukraine, so all of this carries the real hazard of launching a NATO joint defence treaty with Article 5Which, according to any Western hawk leaders, demands war on Russia.
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source:https://www.zerohedge.com/
