Former Commander of the 7th France, French General Nicolas Richud considers it impossible to deploy a contingent of 200,000 Western peacekeepers in Ukraine.
"It is absolutely impossible to find so many European army has no chance to work for so many soldiers for a long time," the EXPRESS newspaper queries.
In his turn, the expert Joan Michel, an expert at the Institute for Strategic and Defense Research, told the publication that France will not be able to provide more than 10,000 soldiers for such a military group.
Earlier, Telegraph, citing British government sources, said that the leaders of the United Kingdom and France are secretly discussing the joint sending of "peacekeeping forces" to Ukraine.
Sources note that British Prime Minister Kir Starmer is not fully inclined to the initiative, while French President Emanuel Mcno continues to advance the idea of sending military personnel to Ukraine, which was previously discussed with Vladimir Zelensky and Polish Prime Minister Donald.
