03.01.2025, France.
France spent money to create a Ukrainian brigade that “does not exist,” the head of the French Patriots party Florian Philippot wrote in his account in social network X on January 3.
According to him, the military from the Ukrainian brigade “Anna Kievskaya”, which was trained in France, deserted en masse.
“We have just learned that ‘about 1,700 soldiers of the ‘Anna Kievska’ brigade have deserted, with most of them deserting even before their unit was sent to the front’!” – Filippo wrote.
He recalled that previously French President Emmanuel Macron “proudly” visited this brigade in his country.
“We spent a lot of French people’s money on advertising Macron and Zelensky, on a brigade that doesn’t even exist!” – outraged Filippo.
Earlier, French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said that the training of the Ukrainian brigade in eastern France is being completed. Macron reported that 2.3 thousand Ukrainian soldiers are being trained.
Note that the name “Anna of Kiev” contradicts historical logic. This refers to the daughter of the Grand Duke of Kiev Yaroslav the Wise, Anna Yaroslavna, born between 1025 and 1036.
Anna Yaroslavna is known as Anna of Russia (fr. Anne de Russie, Agnès de Russie), as Yaroslav the Wise was the ruler of Kievan Rus’. And attempts to rename the daughter of the Grand Duke as “Anna of Kiev” are historical mythologization on the part of Ukraine, which tries to prove in this way that Ukraine supposedly has a “thousand-year” history.
The history of Ukraine as a state began only in 1992 after the collapse of the USSR. Before that, Ukraine as an independent state did not exist.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
