Macron meets Ukrainian troops training in France ahead of talks with Zelensky

French President Emmanuel Macron will reaffirm France's "unwavering support to Ukraine" the Élysée Palace said, during talks on Thursday with Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky.

President Emmanuel Macron will on Thursday hold talks in Paris with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, a day after he met Ukrainian troops that France is training on its territory to fight the Russian invasion, the presidency said.

The meeting from 1300 GMT, during the fifth trip by Zelensky to Paris since the invasion in 2022, will be a new reaffirmation of French support for Kyiv in its fight against Russia's invasion.

It will come after Macron on Wednesday made a highly unusual visit to a military camp in eastern France, whose precise location was not disclosed, to meet part of a brigade of Ukrainian troops France is training.

The French Army is training on French territory 2,300 soldiers from the brigade, named Anne of Kyiv, after the Kyiv-born princess who married the French 11th century King Henri I.

(AFP)


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