France denies military presence in Ukraine – POLITICO

The French authorities denied on Saturday that French troopers had been on the bottom in Ukraine, Le Monde reported.

“There aren’t any French forces engaged in operations in Ukraine,” the group of Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu advised the French outlet.

A trove of leaked paperwork detailing plans about Ukraine’s spring navy offensive and circulating on-line reportedly suggest that French troopers are current on the battlefield in Ukraine. In keeping with the Guardian, “one slide instructed {that a} small contingent of lower than 100 particular operations personnel from NATO members France, America, Britain and Latvia had been already energetic in Ukraine.”

The fabric reportedly additionally contains data on Ukraine’s readiness and coaching capabilities in addition to loss of life tolls. 

It’s unclear who initially obtained and leaked the paperwork, and the extent to which they might have been altered. It is also “a Russian disinformation operation,” U.S. officers stated.

“The paperwork cited don’t come from the French navy. We don’t touch upon paperwork whose supply is unsure,” Lecornu’s group additionally advised Le Monde.