Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday that he would visit Ukraine “in February” and that France would deliver 40 new long-range Scalp missiles and “hundreds of bombs” to the country, AFP reported.

“I myself will go to Ukraine in February” and “we will make new deliveries: about 40 Scalp missiles and several hundred bombs,” the president said at a press conference.

The Franco-British Storm Shadow missile, also known as the air-launched SCALP, weighs approximately 1,300 kilograms, with a warhead weight of 450 kilograms. The declared range of this cruise missile is more than 250 km in the export version and up to 560 km for the armies of France and Great Britain.

With these missiles, the fighters of the Armed Forces will be able to deliver deep strikes on the territories of Ukraine captured by the Russian invaders, destroying important military facilities of the aggressor country, Defense Romania reports.

Security agreement

He also noted that France is “in the process of finalizing a security agreement” with Kyiv, similar to the one concluded on Friday between Britain and Ukraine for ten years, which he will announce during his visit to that country.

France and the European Union “will have to make new decisions in the coming weeks and months to prevent Russia from winning,” he added.

“We cannot and must not allow Russia to win, because then the very security of Europe and Russia’s entire neighborhood will be called into question,” he emphasized.

Answering a question about the prospect of Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections in November, which could call into question support for Ukraine, he said that “we should not care about people. We must be clear enough to understand that the United States of America is a great ally whose courage we will celebrate on the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy next June.

“But this is a democracy that is also going through a crisis, for which the first priority is itself, and the second priority is the Chinese issue,” he continued, imagining in this context “a stronger Europe that knows how to protect itself and that is not dependent on others “.