“We want to send a dissuasive message to Russia so that Russia does not take another step,” Florence Parley, the armed forces minister, told franceinfo on Thursday afternoon.
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Posted on 03/03/2022 21:00 Updated on 03/03/2022 21:04
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Specified objective: “monitoring and deterrence”. A guest on BFMTV on Thursday (March 3rd), Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parley announced that the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, so far used to fight terrorism from Cyprus, had moved to the Mediterranean to approach Romania. The General Staff of the Armed Forces immediately released a video illustrating this decision.
# КЛЕМЕНСО 22 | Participation in the Carrier Strike Group @French_CSG strengthening the defensive and deterrent position of@ NATO in #EUROPE from the east.
Mission: Participates in the Alliance’s eastern flank surveillance and air defense system. # Strategic solidarity pic.twitter.com/0Tx2TPXKqk– French Army – Military Operations (@EtatMajorFR) March 3, 2022
One week after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, the minister said planes taking off from the building would fly “north to Romania, where they will be able to monitor and deter”. “Since February 24, we have been sending fighter jets and their tankers from France to carry out these defense missions for the benefit of the Baltic states,” Florence Parley recalled.
“We want to send a dissuasive message to Russia so that Russia does not take another step and Russia does not think of crossing that border, which is the Atlantic Alliance; “We are countries that are bound by a solidarity pact, and Russia knows that if one of us is attacked, then the whole Alliance will retaliate,” the minister warned earlier in the day in front of a microphone from franceinfo.
Florence Parley will travel to Romania on Sunday to meet with troops sent from France. “We have deployed them because we owe aid and solidarity to countries that belong to the European Union, that belong to the Atlantic Alliance and that are closest to this conflict,” she added.
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