France plans to send several hundred soldiers to Romania as part of a possible deployment on NATO's eastern flank, Defence Minister Florence Parly said Saturday amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
French President Emmanuel Macron had recently expressed France's "readiness to go further, and within the framework of NATO to commit to new missions... in particular in Romania".
Parly told France Inter radio she had visited Romania on Thursday to discuss the issue.
She said Romania was a "high tension zone" which had to be "reassured". Читать дальше...