Experts say majority of French oppose sending troops to Ukraine

According to TASS news agency on April 18, Laurent Briard, a French military journalist working in Donbass, said that, regardless of the influence of Western propaganda, the majority of French people consider military and financial support for Ukraine wrong and oppose confrontation with Russia.

“Many French citizens, especially those living in Russia or Ukraine, have long been opposed to conflict with Russia,” he said.

According to TASS, the expert believes that the French people are bombarded with propaganda on television and in the country's leading media, and that the elderly are particularly vulnerable. He calls it a "zombieization" phenomenon and accuses the American media of being involved in it.

This is why some French people support the government in decisions such as supplying weapons to Ukraine, according to the journalist. But Briard believes that French President Emmanuel Macron has crossed the line when he announced that he was considering sending French troops to Ukraine. “People see that this is no longer just about sending money and weapons, but about sending a large number of young people to die on the front line,” the expert added.

He said that President Macron, despite his stated desire to achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine during the Olympics, intended to use the Paris Games to influence the public to provide further military and financial support to Kiev.

Earlier, Mr. Macron did not explicitly rule out the possibility of sending Western ground troops to the area where Russia is conducting a special military operation. On March 19, the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, said that France was preparing to send a contingent of troops to Ukraine.