The last thing that Paris should want is for these impressive birds to lose reputation on the export market after being shot down.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Friday at the end of a meeting with his Spanish counterpart, José Manuel Albares, that French, Spanish and Europeans must get used to assume “a more important part” of the burden for security in relation to the conflict in Ukraine.
The 155th Mechanized Brigade was given French training and weaponry but has been beset by scandal since before it deployed to the front lines.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday warned that Russia's war against Ukraine would not end "tomorrow or the day after" as Donald Trump, who pledged to quickly wind up the conflict, returned to the White House.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot confirmed that French Mirage 2000 fighter jets will be defending Ukraine's skies by the end of the first quarter, 2025. — Ukrinform.
The new president’s lukewarm attitude toward the North Atlantic Treaty is a ‘European strategic wake-up call,’ France’s Macron warns.
Paris: Moscow’s tensions with NATO country France have flared up amid the Russia-Ukraine war. The French Navy’s patrol aircraft Atlantique 2 was flying over the Baltic Sea. Meanwhile, the Russian air defense system S-400 took an aim at it. The S-400 ‘locked’ this French aircraft with its radar.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to discuss further support for Ukraine amid the ongoing conflict and the country’s European integration ambitions.
A Russian drone attack that targeted cities across Ukraine killed three elderly couples in a Soviet-era residential block in the eastern city of Sumy, prosecutors said.
Russia-Ukraine War: Russia ready to talks with Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron says Europe must "wake up" and spend more on its defense as Trump returns, but how realistic is the suggestion?
The U.K., France and other allies have discussed the possibility of deploying peacekeeping troops to Ukraine as the war escalates.