France denies presence of its soldiers in Ukraine
That’s according to The Guardian, Ukrinform reports.
A spokesperson for the minister of the armed forces, Sébastien Lecornu, said: “There are no French forces engaged in operation in Ukraine. The documents cited do not come from the French armies. We do not comment on documents whose source is uncertain.”
Top secret Pentagon documents, reportedly containing charts and details about anticipated weapons deliveries, battalion strengths, and other sensitive data, circulated on Twitter and Telegram.
One of the slides suggested that a small group of under a hundred special operations forces from NATO allies France, the U.S., UK, and Latvia were operating in Ukraine.
Military analysts believe the papers have been altered in certain parts to overstate American estimates of the Ukrainian death toll and understate one of the Russian troops.
As reported earlier, the New York Times published an article claiming that the Pentagon is investigating the leak of allegedly top-secret documents related to U.S. and NATO plans for a counteroffensive by Ukraine’s Armed Forces.
The documents contain no specific battle plans, for example, on how, when, and where Ukraine will launch an offensive, only reflecting the alleged needs of the Armed Forces as of March 1.
The Ukrainian President’s Office called out the “leak” of counteroffensive plans as Russia’s “bluff.”
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