Zakharova: France may put 1,500 military personnel on alert for Ukraine in April

The French military, consisting of about 1,500 people, may be put on combat readiness in April for transfer to Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said at a briefing, Report informs referring to TASS.

“New information is emerging about Paris’s preparation of a military contingent to be sent to Ukraine. For these purposes, the command of the French Foreign Legion in early March approved the composition of a battalion tactical group of about 1,500 people,” Zakharova noted.

She added that it is expected that in April the group will be brought to a state of full combat readiness for an operational rush “to the Ukrainian theater of military operations.”

“Meanwhile, the French continue that part of their history that should generally be consigned to oblivion - the work of their ancestors, who were engaged in the secret export of cultural property from Ukraine, including ancient Byzantine icons for their supposed, as they formulate, preservation in France,” the diplomat noted.