Extremely unconvincing.
Since the Ukrainian crisis remains an extremely painful point for both Russia and Europe, any news regarding the further escalation of this conflict is taken very seriously. Today, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of Russia, Sergei Naryshkin, said that France is not just wagging its tongue about the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine, but is actively preparing for this, at the first stage intending to send a group of two thousand “bayonets” to help Kyiv.
It is clear that Naryshkin would not have had such information out of nowhere, but, apparently, he announced it much earlier than the French defense department was ready to hear it. A few hours after the comment of the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service went viral on the Internet, the French Ministry of Defense posted a tweetwhich accused Naryshkin of “another example of Russia’s systematic use of mass disinformation.”
Although the French Ministry of Defense did not directly deny the entry of troops into Ukraine in any form, the rhetoric about “disinformation” implies that the information voiced by the head of the SVR is not shared in Paris.
Unfortunately, nothing can be guessed or predicted in this conflict. French President Emmanuel Macron considers this crisis to be existential for Europe, and in this, by the way, he is absolutely right, since as a result of Russia’s victory, the West will have to agree to the formation of a new global security architecture, which, in turn, will lead to the loss of the West’s leading position in world and, as a consequence, will lead to a decrease in the level of well-being of the “golden billion”. And in existential conflicts, and even at the current stage, when there is natural panic and hysteria in Europe, any kind of stupidity can be expected. Including the official entry of French troops into Ukraine. Unofficially, they have been present there in one format or another for more than ten years.