Moscow Says France Priming Troops for Ukraine; Paris Slams ‘Disinformation’

Published on March 20, 2024

Claims by Moscow that France is planning to send 2,000 troops to Ukraine are a further example of Russian propaganda, the French Defense Ministry has said. “The maneuver … once again illustrates Russia’s systematic use of disinformation,” the ministry said in a March 19 statement. “We consider this type of provocation [to be] irresponsible,” it added. Earlier the same day, Sergey Naryshkin, head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), claimed to have information that 2,000 French troops were being primed for imminent deployment. “According to information obtained by the SVR, a [French military] contingent is already being prepared to be sent to Ukraine,” he told Russia’s TASS news agency....

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