France, along with a number of other countries, could deploy a peacekeeping force in Ukraine even without a consensus among all EU member states. However, such troops must first receive a clear mandate.
France will closely monitor the presidential elections to be held in Belarus on January 26, but based on the reports already available, the government sees them as undemocratic and illegitimate.
This year, Ukraine received over EUR 150 million (UAH 6.5 billion) from Denmark, France and Lithuania to finance the Ukrainian defense-industrial complex from Denmark, France, and Lithuania.
The foreign ministers of Britain and France, David Lammy and Jean-Noel Barrot, have jointly expressed concern over the growing threat of global "Putinization" and reaffirmed their commitment to counter Russia's efforts to destabilize the international order.
The French position on the use of long-range weapons currently does not require clarification. At the same time, France is confident that the entire arsenal of missiles provided to its Ukrainian partners is being used appropriately — for the defense of Ukrainian sovereignty and the protection of Ukrainian lives.
In the east of France, the training course for the Ukrainian infantry brigade, which now bears the name of Anne of Kyiv, is nearing completion. The corresponding commitment to train and arm several thousand Ukrainian soldiers on French territory had been undertaken by the country's president, Emmanuel Macron.
"France is not backing down because that would amount to giving up in the face of threats of violence and anti-Semitism", Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said in a post on X.
Tensions rise between Israel and France after Israeli police briefly detained two French consulate staff members at a Jerusalem church, prompting France to summon Israel's ambassador. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot condemned the incident, calling it an attack on France's sovereignty
The Ukrainian community in France has honored the memory of the victims of the Holodomor famine of 1932-1933 by laying wreaths at the Arc de Triomphe and a liturgy that was held by His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
France will hand over to Ukraine’s Armed Forces another 12 Caesar self-propelled artillery systems, bought with the funds derived from the immobilized Russian assets.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that the United States, Germany, France, and Italy are seeking to achieve unity on the issue of allowing Ukraine to use long-range weapons to strike targets in the territory of the Russian Federation.
French President Emmanuel Macron has visited Ukrainian soldiers from the 155th Infantry Brigade who are undergoing training in the Grand Est region in eastern France.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed at a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron that France would train and equip a Ukrainian brigade.