“Ukraine has never expressed dissatisfaction with our country,” insisted in our columns last January the Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, hoping to silence criticism of French arms deliveries to kyiv. .
It is certainly these same detractors - spreading the rumor that Paris is not doing enough to help its ally - who pushed the minister to publish on Monday a detailed list of French military equipment supplied to Zelensky's army.
The list includes both non-lethal weapons (160 reconnaissance drones, 6,200 helmets, 6,500 bulletproof vests), ammunition (1.1 million small caliber ammunition, 10,500 grenades), anti-aircraft defense systems (Crotale, Mistral and Aster missiles) and lethal weapons (30 Caesar cannons, Milan anti-tank missiles and SCALP air-to-ground missiles).
The number of missiles supplied having been kept secret.
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