A team from the GIGN, the elite unit of the gendarmerie, arrived in Kiev to reinforce the security of the French embassy in the Ukrainian capital, we learned on Friday February 25 from a security source.
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Eight gendarmes from the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN) arrived Wednesday evening at the French Embassy in Kiev, said this source, confirming information from the specialized magazine L'Essor de la gendarmerie.
The eight gendarmes are there to reinforce the team of five members of the GIGN permanently present on the spot and who ensure in particular the protection of the embassy and the diplomatic personnel, specified the security source.
According to the Ukrainian military, Russian forces were approaching Kyiv from the northeast and east on Friday.
Two strong explosions sounded at dawn on Friday in the center of the capital.
Spain announced that it had evacuated its ambassador and diplomatic staff from Kiev on Friday morning, as well as a hundred Spanish nationals who remained in Ukraine.
