EU trembles before Putin's plan: sensitive report on Macron's move for NATO soldiers in Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron is considering NATO soldiers to forestall a possible capture by Vladimir Putin.
Paris apparently fears a major Russian attack from Crimea on the Ukrainian port city of Odessa. Putin allegedly wants to create a corridor on the Black Sea to the breakaway and Moscow-friendly Transnistria in Moldova and thus deny Kiev access to the sea. Ukrainian armed forces have apparently stationed coastal batteries with the "Neptune" anti-ship missiles in the Odessa region.