The French Ministry of Defense has published a complete list of weapons that Paris sent to Ukraine to protect against Russian aggression, The Kyiv Independent and The New Voice of Ukraine magazines report.

France supplied Kyiv with air defense systems, salvo fire systems, artillery systems, armored vehicles, drones, trucks, small arms, warships, fuel and other equipment.

Among the military complexes sent by Paris to Kyiv are 6 Mistral air defense systems, two Crotale air defense systems and one SAMP-T. In addition to them, Ukraine also received from France:

• 250 VAB (Véhicule de l’Avant Blindé) armored personnel carriers;

• 38 BMP AMH-10;

• 30 Caesar self-propelled howitzers;

• 4 rocket salvo fire systems of the LRU;

• 6 TRF1 howitzers;

• 10 heavy mortars of 120 mm caliber;

• 60 drones and 10 drone detection systems;

• over a million small arms cartridges.

The total cost of this equipment is approximately 2.6 billion euros, but the French Ministry of Defense classified some data, such as the number of missiles delivered for the Crotale air defense systems, or the number of SCALP missiles, the French equivalent of an anti-missile system. – Storm Shadow long-range aviation missiles sent by Great Britain to Ukraine.

How France chose weapons to send to Ukraine

The Ministry of Defense of France clarified that arms deliveries to Kyiv must meet 3 criteria:

• ensure the “full capability” of the Ukrainian armed forces, i.e. provide them with the necessary ammunition, training and maintenance;

• not to weaken the armed forces of France;

• not to escalate the conflict.

The Paris defense ministry released the information a week after President Emmanuel Macron said he could not rule out the idea of ​​sending Western troops to Ukraine, although French diplomacy later toned down his remarks because they caused consternation among NATO. partners

Macron made such a comment after the Paris summit of European leaders, when he also criticized allies who, before the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, offered Kyiv “only helmets and sleeping bags.”

International news agencies write that these words of his “were not well received” in Berlin, because after the helmet episode, Germany became the second largest supplier of military equipment to Ukraine, second only to the USA.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck and German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius denied sending German troops to Ukraine just a day after Emmanuel Macron’s comments.

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