For the first time since the start of the war in Ukraine, the Head of State visited Tuesday at the French contingent deployed on the basis of NATO in Constanta. Paris wants to double its workforce in this strategic site in one year.
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The next generation is being prepared. French soldiers inspect the interior of AMX-10 RC armored vehicles. The Belgians bricked their FN Skar assault rifles. The first, notably from 27 e battalion of the alpine hunters of Annecy, are preparing to give way in a few days to their paratrooper colleagues of 8 e regiment of Marine infantry of Castres. The latter will be replaced by Dutch. It is in this in-between that Emmanuel Macron visited for the first time, Tuesday, June 14, in the French contingent deployed in south-east of Romania since the start of the war in Ukraine.
Five hundred men and their equipment were thus transported by Antonov, at the rate of 28 rotations in two weeks, in – within the framework of the international mission “eagle”, for which France was designated nation under command of command of command of command of command of command of command of command of command of NATO – to strengthen the eastern flank of Europe in the face of the Russian threat. A good part of these troops is installed on the basis of NATO of Mihail-Kogalniceanu, near the Romanian port of Constanta, on the edges of the Black Sea, another built the foundations of a second base in Cincu, in Transylvania , for training more inside the land with the Romanian forces.
When he arrived at the end of the day, the head of state visits a hangar, hugs. He is explained by the Mamba medium-range Sol-Air defense system, capable of transporting eight missiles, who had been arrived for less than a month. “Is morale good?” Repeat Emmanuel Macron. “And interoperability [between French and Belgian soldiers], does it work?”, He inquired, before sending a few words to all the soldiers present. “It is a pride of France to be there, on this Romanian soil at the eastern vangosals of Europe when the war returns to the continent, underlines Emmanuel Macron. What we are building with Belgium is unprecedented. Defense Europe is built here, in this partnership and this intimacy. “
“We will do everything to stop the Russian war effort, help the Ukrainians and their army and continue the negotiation, he continues. But in a lasting way, we will need to protect ourselves, dissuade and be present. In this regard, you have been pioneers of these deployments. “He thus hastily concludes a speech which will not have lasted more than eight minutes -” Ah, it’s short “, we hear in the ranks -before sharing a typical meal tray of the country -Sarmale (small stuffed cabbage), polenta and papanasi (cream with cream and raspberry) – with the troops. Welcomed by the so -called “dust” rite, a goblet with a back of wine “carried on the verge of the heads” (lips), Emmanuel Macron, who was accompanied by his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, and her defense counterpart, Sébastien Lecornu, seemed elsewhere.
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