Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian is the current director of Afalula, the French Agency for the development of Al-Ula, in Saudi Arabia.
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LE FIGARO.
- What are your predictions for
Ukraine
?
How do you analyze the balance of power on the ground?
Jean-Yves LE DRIAN.
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In February 2022, I experienced a turning point in history.
First, on the 22nd, with the political recognition by the Kremlin of the two republics of Donbass, a harbinger of the catastrophe that was to follow.
Then with the military aggression against Ukraine, which began on the 24th. Finally, with the intense, immediate mobilization of Europeans.
The EU, in the same week, unanimously took the first sanctions against Russia and decided to send lethal weapons to Ukraine, which would have been unthinkable before.
So, when I take stock, what I see is a failure of Russia.
Who would have predicted that Ukraine would resist so well and that the Kremlin’s “special operation” would be…
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