The new French Minister for the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu announced on Friday that he would go to the bedside of soldiers wounded in combat on Saturday at the Percy military hospital in Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine) near Paris.
"I have a special thought for the victims, the families of the victims whose nation has a duty to remember, never to forget"
, he declared during his transfer of power with his predecessor Florence Parly to the Hotel de Brienne in Paris.
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"But also of course
(a thought for)
the soldiers who were injured in combat operations and therefore at the request of the President of the Republic, I will go tomorrow to Percy hospital to meet and ensure the solidarity of the new government, all the republican fraternity with regard to those who unfortunately have experienced a serious wound in their flesh
,” he added.
Ukraine, a
"high intensity crisis"
During his brief speech, in front of an audience of soldiers and ministry staff, Sébastien Lecornu spoke of the
“seriousness”
of the context, citing the issues in which France was currently engaged, from the fight against terrorism to the current
“high intensity crisis”
in Ukraine.
This conflict
"revises all the doctrines on which we have relied for more than 30 years now and on which the President of the Republic has asked this ministry to restructure in some way our defense system, our capability means, our strategies , our weapon systems”
, he underlined.
