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France Must Stand Firm but Won’t Send Troops to Ukraine:Macron
France will launch a voluntary military service to strengthen national defense with a goal of training up to 50,000 young volunteers annually, excluding deployment to Ukraine.
- On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron said France will not send its young people to fight in Ukraine and will present a voluntary transformation of universal national service on Thursday at the Varces army base, stopping short of compulsory conscription.
- Amid warnings from military leaders last week, Emmanuel Macron linked the change to escalating threats from Russia and rejected the top general's 'lose its children' remark as deformed.
- According to media reports and an anonymous source cited by AFP, initial trainees number 2,000 to 3,000 in year one, aiming for 50,000 per year, with a planned duration of 10 months and paid volunteers.
- On Tuesday the plan will be discussed at a coalition video conference, amid recent Russian strikes that killed six people in Kyiv, Ukraine, and three in Russia's Rostov region.
- If the war ends in a ceasefire, the coalition of the willing aims to send a multinational force to deter further Russian attacks, while Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, pushes the EU to unlock €140bn in frozen Russian assets for reconstruction.
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Macron warns France can’t appear weak as it toughens its stance on Russia
French President Emanuel Macron has said that France could not afford to be weak amid ongoing threats from Russia. He stressed that France had no intention of sending its youth to the fight in Ukraine currently.
·Mumbai, India
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Questioned this Tuesday on RTL, Emmanuel Macron referred to the universal national service, which he will present in more detail "a new form" on Thursday.
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