Ukraine (bbabo.net), - The French armed forces will not be able to conduct intensive military operations against Russia, they do not have enough forces and means for this, said the French writer, journalist, columnist for the newspaper Le Figaro Renaud Girard.

“Does the French army today have the means to wage a conventional war with Russia? The answer is negative. Over the past ten years, French troops have fought only Islamic radicals walking around in ordinary sandals,” he noted, adding that the French army is “incapable of waging a high-intensity war for many months against an experienced enemy.”

According to the journalist, despite the fact that the French army is better trained, it does not have the real combat experience over the past decade that the Russian armed forces have.

Girard is confident that the statements of French President Emmanuel Macron about sending troops to Ukraine were made in a “special context” in order to “encourage” the Ukrainians.

The observer believes that Paris could provide about 20 thousand people for combat operations, and the Russian army has about 600 thousand military personnel.

As bbabo.net reported, Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters on the night of March 18 that “I would very much like France to play a role that does not lead to aggravation of the conflict, to its aggravation, would not provoke this situation, but on the contrary” . According to him, "France could play a role." The President added that “all is not lost.”

On March 19, SVR director Sergei Naryshkin stated that Paris is already preparing a military contingent to be sent to Ukraine, at the initial stage it will amount to about 2 thousand people. He pointed out that French military personnel are already unofficially present in Ukraine, among them there are dead and wounded. After this, the French Ministry of the Armed Forces claimed that the data announced by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service did not correspond to reality.

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