The French Foreign Legion dispatched to Ukraine has possibly sustained its first personnel losses, military correspondent Boris Rozhin stated on Telegram.
At least 75 French mercenaries in Ukraine have been killed, wounded or have returned to France since the start of Russia s special military operation, Nicolas Cinquini, a former French counter-terrorism intelligence officer, told Sputnik.
Remarks of French President Emmanuel Macron on a possible deployment of Western troops to Ukraine were aimed at creating deterrence and ambiguity toward Russia, and everyone knows that Western special forces are in Ukraine, an unnamed senior European defense official told Financial Times on Tuesday.
Western nations ramped up aid to Ukraine shortly after the start of the Russian special military operation. Moscow has repeatedly warned that such assistance adds to prolongation of the Ukrainian conflict.