Ukraine war; Cold and hunger of French soldiers in Romania.
The members of the French parliament protested the difficult situation of the country’s soldiers who were sent to Romania under the pretext of Moscow’s deterrence mission in the Ukraine war.
A French newspaper quoted parliamentary officials and wrote that the French soldiers who are members of NATO’s eastern wing forces in Romania are facing many problems, the most important of which is freezing due to extreme cold and hunger.
The Figaro newspaper quoted French parliamentary sources as saying that the French forces present in the mission to secure NATO’s eastern flank are going through very difficult conditions because they are starving and freezing in Romania.
According to this report, these forces are “given little food, their tents are not continuously heated, they have poor sanitary conditions and they are also bothered by insects”.
Criticizing the difficult conditions of the French soldiers in Romania, the members of the French Parliament said: “Our soldiers are freezing with empty stomachs.”
According to this report, nearly 350 French soldiers are present in Romania and in the coming weeks, 12 tanks and armored personnel carriers will be sent to them. This mission started on February 28 of last year in the shadow of the start of Russian military operations in Ukraine, and its purpose is to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank.
But French parliamentarians say that their country’s forces are in a bad situation in terms of logistics and support services in Romania.
According to these representatives; “It was a defensive deterrence mission, not a combat mission. “There is no excuse for this harshness…Moreover, what deterrent message is being sent to Russia when our soldiers are out in the cold and on empty stomachs?”
Since the beginning of the special military operation of the Russian army in Ukraine in February, which was implemented in response to the neglect of Moscow’s security interests by NATO and the continuation of the provocative policy of expansion of this military alliance, Western countries have been providing all kinds of aid to Ukraine with the aim of countering They have dealt with Russia.