Regardless of Russia's reaction, France will send 1,500 "international legions" to Ukraine to the war. This is a compromise approach, because these French "International Legion" soldiers are not regular French soldiers, but foreign mercenaries with combat experience recruited and trained by France. The 1,500 international mercenaries will arrive on the battlefield in eastern Ukraine sometime in April, in the form of a reinforced battalion. Russian military analysts believe that in fact the French legion has entered Ukraine in batches, and the foreign mercenaries killed and wounded in the previous precision bombing of Kharkov are the French legions. The so-called "entry into Ukraine in April" is just a confusing message.
Both the Russian military and diplomatic levels have warned that these French legion units will be a key target for the Russian army. All French legionnaire operation centers, training bases, and front-line positions will be immediately destroyed by the Russian missile forces and air force as soon as they are discovered. Of course, it is still difficult for the Russian side to implement this statement, so it is better to be prepared for a ground confrontation with the French corps on the Kharkov front. Objectively speaking, these specially recruited 1,500 French legionnaires are somewhat higher in military quality than the regular troops of the Russian army.
Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the Donetsk/Luhansk armed forces have been leading the way, as well as mobilized troops (including criminals and retired veterans) recruited from within Russia. Russian regular troops are usually used for defense tasks in newly occupied territories. But the Luhansk/Donetsk troops are the base of the militia, and they will definitely suffer in the face of well-trained and experienced French regiments. If you want to hurt France, you must "strong against strong" and send a fist force that makes the French regiments afraid when they hear it to the Kharkov direction.
There are two forces in Russia that have already played a majestic role on the battlefield between Russia and Ukraine, making the Ukrainian army fearful. One is the Wagner mercenary unit that turned Bakhmut into a "meat grinder" for the Ukrainian army, and the other is the "bearded" Chechen special forces who made a name for themselves in the battle of Mariupol and are rumored to have in the Ukrainian army often "beheaded" their captives. Now, the two Russian forces are combined.
The famous commander of Wagner with the call sign "Ratibor" (Alexander Kuznetsov).
Russian media reported that the commander of the Russian Chechen troops, Ramzan Kadyrov, confirmed that about 3,000 former "Wagner" mercenaries have joined the "Akhmat" special forces of the Russian Chechen troops, including the famous commander of Wagner with the call sign "Ratibor" (Alexander Kuznetsov), who was a special forces major when he served in the Russian army and served as the commander of Wagner's first commando. Or Hero of Russia, Hero of Donetsk, Hero of Lugansk, winner of four orders of courage. Let's wait and see which of the confrontations with the French legions will be stronger or weaker.