🇫🇷🚓🇷🇺 Major police crackdown on radicalized Chechen across France

👉🏻 A joint operation of the Metz police, the Raid, the BRI and the judiciary police went down today to arrest radicalized, watch-listed members of the Chechen community.

🔎 A dozen people were arrested, one of whom was linked to the murder of Samuel Paty, a French teacher who had been beheaded by a Chechen jihadist in 2020.

🇷🇺 The Chechen community is regularly targeted for its links with radicalized circles. This is not the first time this type of intervention has taken place in France.

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🌐 🇷🇺 🇫🇷 Moscow ready to strike French military trainers in Ukraine

🔶️ “No instructor involved in training the Ukrainian military has immunity,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the press according to a report from French newswire AFP.

🔶️ “It doesn’t matter whether they’re French or not,” Peskov added.

🔶️ Last week, Ukraine’s top commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said French trainers would come to Ukraine “soon,” a statement which was downplayed at the time both in Paris and Kyiv.

https://www.politico.eu/article/moscow-ready-to-strike-french-military-trainers-in-ukraine/

🇫🇷🪖French Army's Chief of Staff: “the nation is ready to make sacrifices”

🗣 I believe that the French population, the nation, is ready to make sacrifices to defend what it holds dear. But this question remains highly theoretical, because our vital interests are not directly threatened. We are not in the same situation as the Ukrainians, who have experienced in their flesh, since 2014, the growing pressure of the Russian military apparatus.

We don't live next door to a country that would develop an army with the aim of invading us. That said, we are part of NATO and we are the initiators of the European Union. As such, we have a fundamental solidarity with a number of allies who have a power on their borders, Russia, which has built up a military apparatus that puts pressure on its neighbors.

We can't rule out the possibility of Russia trying to attack one of our partners in one way or another. We need to be able to make a major contribution to Europe's collective defense as part of a coalition.

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🇫🇷🗣🇺🇦Emmanuel Macron announces transfer of Mirage 2000-5s to Kiev and training of 4,500 Ukrainian soldiers

👉🏻 The head of state announced during his D-Day commemoration speech the launch of “a new cooperation” tomorrow, including the transfer of Mirage 2000-5s, without specifying the number, “which are French combat aircraft that will enable Ukraine to protect its soil and its airspace”.

🗣 “Tomorrow, we will launch a program to train pilots and transfer these aircraft, with the aim of having them trained by the end of the year”. Mr. Macron announced that he was proposing to “train 4,500 Ukrainian soldiers (...) equip and train them”. On the question of sending military instructors to Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron believes
“there should be no taboo on this subject. Ukrainian soil is sovereign. It's not a question of going to train in the combat zone, but when Ukraine has a challenge, we must respond as we have done every time".

Asked about the consequences of such a dispatch, and then of the death of his instructors in the field, Mr. Macron replied: “Do you think it's less serious to have a French, German or British civilian killed in Ukraine than a soldier? Symbolically, it's very different, but it's targeted symbolically because it's also the role of these soldiers to get involved in what we're doing".

Mr. Macron also confirmed his agreement to Ukraine striking Russia from the areas where the missiles are fired. "If we say to the Ukrainians: ‘you can't neutralize these Russian capabilities, i.e. the weapons the Russians are using to attack you’. At that point, we're telling them you can no longer defend yourselves”

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#BREAKING
🇫🇷🇪🇺❗️ — Following Far-Right victory in France's section of European Elections, President Emmanuel Macron dissolves the National Assembly, legislative elections on June 30 and July 7

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