Macron to Send Fighter Jets to Ukraine, Train Troops

Macron to Send Fighter Jets to Ukraine, Train Troops

Turning to the war in Ukraine now, President Emmanuel Macron says France will send fighter jets to Kiev and train thousands of soldiers to help the country repel Russia’s invasion. We don’t see another record because we will launch a new cooperation and announce the transfer of Mirage 2005 French fighter jets, Double-A, Ukraine, to protect its soil, its airspace. And as early as tomorrow, we will start a pilot training program and transfer our planes. Chances of you keeping. Okay. Let’s get more on this story then with Bloomberg’s news director in Africa, Ross Matheson. Ross, what has emerged that we had the meeting between Biden, Macron, Zelensky, some progress, it seems, in terms of European support from the French side, at least in terms of the military of Ukraine. What are the details? Well, that’s right. So we saw the agreement. France is going to send fighter jets. But the interesting thing from Emmanuel Macron is he said they have to train the Ukrainian pilots first. He said the earliest they’re going to get there is probably the end of the year. So that’s telling because for a start, that means that he thinks the war is still going to be going on potentially at the end of the year. But also they’re not going to arrive immediately. And as we know, there’s a crunch point going on now for Ukraine, where they’re running very short still on weapons, including fighter jets and repelling these fresh Russian advances near the border. And in fact, France is among those countries that is now allowing Ukraine to use Western made weapons to make targeted strikes inside Russia. So we had the announcement about that in terms of fighter jets, but we still are waiting to see the bulk of this fresh air arriving into Ukraine. And certainly the signs are that it’s going to take many months to get there. Yeah, and Macron asked as well whether or not that would be seen, at least the training of soldiers in the western parts of Ukraine as a sign of aggression. And he says, no, that shouldn’t be interpreted as that when it comes to the next meetings, because it’s further meetings between Biden Zelensky at the G7. What can we expect from that? Is anything material in terms of what moves the dial, as you say, for a Ukraine military that is challenged right now, what would be there probably is more the conversation around money. So this is actually also keeping the lights on in Ukraine, the economy going, and that’s around what to do with all these Russian assets that have been seized since the start of the war, taking hundreds of billions of dollars of Russian assets that are sitting in central banks and elsewhere around the world. And that’s been a very difficult and tricky one to do. You use those assets in the meantime, How do you put them to work and more edging towards and possibly will come up again at the G7? The leaders will talk about it is can you use the interest from those assets to loan money to Ukraine now? So you send them money now they’re funded by the interest from these assets. But at some point, of course, that means that those assets have to stay available and not under sanctions. So it’s a little bit tricky, but that’s probably what’s going to be up for conversation at the G7 specifically. Okay. So two components is the financial part coming through in the G7 and then the military support coming through at least from France as Europe continues to build out that response?

President Emmanuel Macron said France will send fighter jets to Ukraine and train thousands of soldiers to support the country’s fight against Russia’s invasion. He added he is also working on a coalition to send instructors to the country. His pledges came on Thursday, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy. Bloomberg’s Rosalind Mathieson reports.

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