{"id":19090,"date":"2025-04-14T11:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T11:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/19090\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T11:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T11:37:18","slug":"france-shares-intelligence-with-ukraine-amid-morally-detestable-us-aid-cutoff-says-french-minister-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/19090\/","title":{"rendered":"France shares intelligence with Ukraine amid \u2018morally detestable\u2019 US aid cutoff, says French minister \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &#8220;I think that for our British friends, who are in an intelligence community with the U.S., it&#8217;s more complicated.&#8221; he said, referring to the Five Eyes group that also gathers Canada, Australia and New Zealand. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our intelligence is sovereign. Yes, we have intelligence resources that we share with the Ukrainians,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, \u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/03\/03\/trump-zelenskyy-do-over-00209494\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. also halted sending military aid<\/a>\u00a0to Ukraine, leaving the country vulnerable to aerial attacks by Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Lecornu also addressed the idea that U.S. President Donald Trump might be trying to use military aid to Ukraine as negotiation leverage with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it&#8217;s a tool for negotiating and putting pressure on the Ukrainians, it&#8217;s very hard for them and morally detestable,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The French minister added that President Emmanuel Macron asked him to accelerate French aid to Kyiv, without providing more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I think that for our British friends, who are in an intelligence community with the U.S., it&#8217;s more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[186,943,32,34,2000,7704,299,36,2817,2597,704,332,12338,657,49,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-19090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-eu-us-military-ties","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-intelligence","17":"tag-military","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-sebastien-lecornu","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114336120402466077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}