According to Sergey Naryshkin, the French army "is afraid that it will be impossible to move and place such a large military unit in Ukraine without anyone noticing."
The director of the Russian foreign intelligence service, Sergei Naryshkin, said that the Russian side has information according to which France is preparing a force of 2,000 soldiers to send to Ukraine - the Russian TASS agency reported.
He said: "The current leadership of France does not care about the death of ordinary French people or the concerns of the generals. According to information that reached the Russian intelligence agency, the force to be sent to Ukraine is already being prepared. "And initially it will include about 2,000 soldiers."