French Special Forces Preparing To Counter Attack On Ukraine From Belarus

• 15.01.2025, 16:44

Paris held secret military exercises.

French special forces conducted top-secret exercises in late 2024. They were preparing to repel an attack from Belarus on Kyiv in case of deployment in Ukraine.

The French Aid to Ukraine reported.

The exercises were held even before French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer about the possibility of European troops being sent to Ukraine.

In the last months of 2024, the French army conducted a multi-week operational preparatory maneuver at a French training ground, information about which is kept in the strictest confidence.

Intelligence Online reports that the exercises were called Perseus. They were based on an analysis of the experience of Ukrainian maneuvers that helped contain the Russian invasion in February 2022. More than 3,000 French troops practiced their skills in an area similar to a section of the Dnieper River north of Kyiv.