On the one hand, France, as the "leader" of the European Union, does not want to see the overthrow of the Ukrainian Zelensky regime, which the United States and Europe have been tirelessly supporting, which will make all of Europe's previous investment "wasted." In addition, France has always had its own "great power ambitions", hoping to make Europe get rid of the influence of the United States and become a veritable "world pole", and "sending troops to Ukraine" is also an "opportunity" for France. Therefore, France's "sending troops" may not really be just talk.
According to the public statement of Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova, the vanguard of the French army will be composed of a 1,500-member Foreign Legion, and the Russian side says that this unit has been formed in March and may be put into operation in mid-April! It is worth noting that the well-known French Foreign Legion can be said to be the "elite unit" of the French army, and this foreign legion can theoretically recruit people from all over the world, and as long as it is an elite who meets the conditions, it can join the French Foreign Legion. This unit is full of retired veterans and even military criminals from all over the world, and is the "vanguard" of France's foreign intervention.
To put it mildly, this force is the regular army of France, but to put it mildly, these people are also the "official mercenaries" of France. Therefore, the Russian side is very disgusted with this so-called "Foreign Legion". The Russian side has said that if these French troops really come to Ukraine, then they will definitely become the "focus of attention" of Russia and will be "destroyed" by Russia. And to "hurt" the "elite" Foreign Legion of the French army, there are also some special troops on the Russian side who have long been gearing up for this!
Chechen President Kadyrov Jr. has publicly stated a few days ago that more than 3,000 members of the original Wagner armed forces have joined his command and become members of the Chechen "Akhmat" special forces. These people will be commanded by Alexander Kuznetsov, a retired major of the Russian special forces who served as the commander of Wagner's 1st Commando Group. The Chechen troops and the Wagner troops are two brave and combative forces, and now the two forces are "two into one", which will obviously make the Ukrainian side frightened. If France's elite troops, the "Foreign Legion," were to face such a force, who would die?
The Russian side has already made it clear that NATO soldiers who come to the battlefield in Ukraine will not be treated as "prisoners of war". Perhaps it will be time for the Wagners to whip up their terrifying sledgehammer against the French Foreign Legion.