“France will continue to play its full role in reassuring NATO allies by sending a new contingent to Estonia as part of the reinforced forward presence, anticipating its participation in the Baltic Sky Police from March and also speeding up its deployment in Romania,” Macron said.

His statement came after the emergency summit of the European Union, held in Brussels, and showed his commitment to “continue to deliver military equipment” to the Ukrainian government, an extreme corroborated by the French Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, who assured to study “the requests that have just been made and we will decide very quickly”.

Russia launched early Thursday morning a special military operation in the Ukrainian autonomous region of Donbass, after the authorities of the Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (LPR) people’s republics asked for help to repel Kiev’s aggression.

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