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War in Ukraine: Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu to visit kyiv next Wednesday

2022-12-24T13:00:43.433Z


The Minister will visit the Heroes Monument in kyiv on December 28 and meet his Ukrainian counterpart, Oleksiy Reznikov.


Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of the Armed Forces, will travel to Ukraine on Wednesday December 28, 2022 to show the Ukrainian authorities France's continued support since the start of the war on February 24,

Le Figaro

learned this Saturday, confirming information from BFMTV .

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The French minister will notably pay tribute to the war dead in Ukraine during a trip to the heroes' monument in kyiv and will meet his Ukrainian counterpart, Oleksiy Reznikov.

Additional weapons

This visit will take place a few days after the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, confirmed the shipment to Ukraine of new French weapons.

Paris thus recently delivered rocket launchers and Crotale missile batteries to kyiv and will continue its arms deliveries in early 2023, said the Head of State in an interview with TF1 and LCI broadcast last Tuesday.

"In recent days, France has delivered additional weapons, rocket launchers, Crotales, equipment beyond what we had already done

," said the French president from the aircraft carrier

Charles de Gaulle

off .

of Egypt.

"We are also working with the Minister of the Armed Forces (Sébastien Lecornu) so that in the first quarter, we can again deliver useful weapons and ammunition, so that the Ukrainians can defend themselves against the bombardments",

added the head of the State, who was in Jordan on Tuesday for a regional summit.

Among the deliveries envisaged are those of new Caesar guns.

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Emmanuel Macron has not advanced on any figures, indicating that

"it depends on the discussions"

in progress with Denmark.

Paris actually plans to provide kyiv with six to 12 additional Caesar guns, taken from an order for Copenhagen.

Since the beginning of the conflict in February, France has notably provided 18 Caesar guns of 155 mm with a range of 40 km, mounted on trucks, anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles as well as forward armored vehicles (VAB ).

Source: lefigaro

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