Posted: 17.03.2022 11:11:00

Kiev’s recruitment of mercenaries in France causes alertness of French special services

The recruitment of mercenaries by the Ukrainian government in France causes the alertness of the French special services – as reported by the newspaper l’Humanité with reference to the information of the General Directorate for Internal Security of France and the Defence Intelligence and Security Directorate of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces

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According to the publication, about 70 volunteers from France are currently in Ukraine. Most of them are ‘ultra-radicals who sympathise with such neo-Nazi formations, such as the Azov Battalion’.

The French Armed Forces are searching for soldiers of Ukrainian origin who have deserted from the French Foreign Legion. The Chief of Staff of the Foreign Legion Command of the French Army, Colonel Antoine Fleuret, said that the military department ‘has no news about two dozen of its soldiers of Ukrainian nationality’.