Russian invasion: "Ukraine will win", says Jean-Yves Le Drian

Jean-Yves Le Drian believes in the final victory of Ukraine against the Russian invasion.

The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, however, warned Sunday evening against the destruction and civilian victims that the siege of the big cities risks causing.

"For ten days, what has been most striking has been Ukraine's strong resistance capacity, to a point that the experts did not imagine", declared Jean-Yves Le Drian on the France 5 channel. “We are entering into the logic of the sieges, and the logic of the sieges is part of our sinister expertise in the functioning and action of the Russian forces”, he nevertheless underlined.

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"We have the example of Grozny, we have the example of Aleppo and it will start again," added the head of French diplomacy, referring to the very heavy assessments of Russian interventions in the Chechen capital and in the big city. from northern Syria.

“I think what we will find in Mariupol when the war is over will be horrible, there is Odessa and then there is Kiev,” he said.

In a phone conversation between French Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Russian Presidents Vladimir Putin on Sunday, the Kremlin master claimed he would "achieve his goals" in Ukraine "either through negotiation or war" but denied take on civilians, according to the French presidency.

"I think Ukraine will win," said Jean-Yves Le Drian, citing in support of this analysis the diplomatic isolation of Russia and the effect of international sanctions.

2.5 million doses of iodine to be able to counter any nuclear danger

“We have taken considerable series of sanctions, the effects of which are being heavy and will in my opinion be more and more heavy, which means that the price to be paid for the war will become unbearable and that at some point At some point President Putin is going to be faced with the choice of having major effects on the functioning of Russia or opening negotiations,” he explained.

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As a sign of concern, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian confirmed that France had sent “various medical products” including iodine to Ukraine.

The French ambassador to Ukraine reported, on BFMTV, the supply in the coming days of "2.5 million doses of iodine to be able to ward off any nuclear danger".