The General Staff of the French Armed Forces is preparing to deploy to Ukraine has a military contingent of up to 2 thousand soldiers and officers to help Kiev. This was stated in the press office of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation.
"On his instructions [French President Emmanuel Macron], the General Staff of the French armed forces is preparing to deploy to Ukraine will be assisted by a military contingent of up to two thousand soldiers and officers to help the Kiev regime," the SVR said, noting that "the backbone of the formation will be made up of attack aircraft of the French Foreign Legion, mainly from Latin American countries."
According to the SVR, "now the legionnaires have already been deployed in the border areas of Poland with Ukraine and are intensively undergoing combat coordination, receiving weapons and military equipment."
"It is planned to transfer them to the central regions of Ukraine in the near future," the press bureau said.
They noted that "at the same time, the French quite reasonably take into account the historical past."
"In France, hundreds of additional beds are being created at an accelerated pace in hospitals to receive the wounded. French doctors are undergoing special medical training to work in the field, " the report says.
In case of leakage of information about the upcoming intervention, Paris intends to declare that it is just a small group of instructors arriving at the Ukraine for the training of mobilized Armed Forces, stated in the SVR of the Russian Federation.