France should stop delivering Caesar guns to Ukraine because it cannot
"help Ukraine (...) to the detriment of (its) own security
," Marine Le Pen said on Wednesday.
Asked on CNews whether Paris should stop delivering Caesar cannons to Kiev, the leader of the National Rally deputies, reputed to be close to Moscow, replied
“Yes, I believe so”
.
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Eighteen Caesar guns, flagship of French artillery, with a range of 40 kilometers, have been sent to Ukraine and six others could follow soon.
"Helping Ukraine as much as we can is honorable but we cannot do it at the expense of our own security, the security of our own people
," the far-right official said.
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“All of the equipment that we are transferring to Ukraine today is equipment that France lacks”
, and
“delivering heavy equipment, which our armies need, is to weaken and take a risk on our security interior
,” she added.
However, she said she was in favor of
"transmitting know-how, training, protective equipment, bulletproof vests"
to the Ukrainian army.
For Marine Le Pen,
"we are not in a position, it seems, today, to wage
(war)
up to the level of efficiency which should be that of our army, of its know-how, of his human capacities
.