By Laura Kayali
April 10, 2023:
Information Clearing House
-- "Politico"
-- The French government denied on
Saturday that French soldiers were on the ground
in Ukraine,
Le Monde reported.
“There are no French forces engaged in
operations in Ukraine,” the team of Armed Forces
Minister Sébastien Lecornu told the French
outlet.
A trove of leaked documents detailing plans
about Ukraine’s spring military offensive
and circulating online reportedly imply that
French soldiers are present on the battlefield
in Ukraine.
According to the Guardian, “one slide
suggested that a small contingent of less than a
hundred special operations personnel from NATO
members France, America, Britain and Latvia were
already active in Ukraine.”
The material reportedly also includes
information on Ukraine’s readiness and training
capabilities as well as death tolls.
It’s unclear who originally obtained and
leaked the documents, and the extent to which
they may have been altered. It could also be “a
Russian disinformation operation,”
U.S. officials said.
“The documents cited do not come from the
French military. We do not comment on documents
whose source is uncertain,” Lecornu’s team also
told Le Monde.
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