A possible military intervention? France intends to send “several hundred” of its soldiers to Romania as part of a possible deployment of NATO, declared this Saturday its Minister of the Armies Florence Parly, when the Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian announced a joint visit to Ukraine in early February with his German counterpart.
“That’s why I went to Romania on Thursday. We obviously discussed with our Romanian partners on this issue”, explained on France Inter the Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly, after President Emmanuel Macron announced on January 19 the “availability” of France to commit “to new missions”, “in particular in Romania”.
This country, bordering Ukraine and which has access to the Black Sea, a “zone of extreme tension” because Russia and Ukraine also have a “frontage” there, is “at the epicenter of tensions” and must therefore be “reassured”, estimated Florence Parly.