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Ukraine asks France to prove its love with weapons

Romantic gestures can take many different shapes, therefore on Wednesday the Ukrainian defence ministry shared a video on social media to ge...

Chima Joseph Ugo
Chima Joseph Ugo - Editor-in-chief October 12, 2022
Updated October 12, 2022 at 11:54 AM
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Romantic gestures can take many different shapes, therefore on Wednesday the Ukrainian defence ministry shared a video on social media to gently encourage France to express its love by providing arms in response to persistent complaints that Paris has not been acting sufficiently.

The 41-second video was posted on Twitter a few hours after President Emmanuel Macron's security cabinet meeting, where it was agreed that France had made fresh choices to "help Ukraine militarily" following conversations with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

France has mainly provided heavy armoured vehicles, portable air defence systems, and Caesar howitzers.

The stakes have increased, though, as a result of a slew of assaults on Ukrainian cities, and Kyiv is now asking that its allies deliver more supplies, including air defence systems, which Paris has so far refused to do.

Wednesday’s clip made clear to France that it wanted more than just words and promises.

“Romantic gestures take many forms,” images on the video read as the classic “Je t’aime moi non plus” (I love you … me neither), the suggestive and once-censored song that Serge Gainsbourg recorded with then-lover Jane Birkin, played in the background.

The images intertwine lovers holding hands in Paris, chocolates, roses and Macron smiling with Zelenskiy. All with the French-made howitzer cannons in full action on the battlefield.

“But if you really want to win our hearts… nothing beats 155mm heavy self-propelled artillery … Many thanks France. Please send us more!”

France’s defence ministry announced on Tuesday that it was boosting its support on NATO’s eastern flak by sending more tanks to Romania, Rafale fighter jets to Lithuania and infantry to Estonia. It said nothing about Ukraine.

Macron is due to be interviewed on national television Wednesday evening, during which diplomatic sources have said he may outline details of his proposed new support.

France does have the SAMP/T (Mamba) surface-to-air defence system, although quite how many it could provide is unclear. It deployed one such system to Romania in May.

“We have not had any answers from France to our requests on this,” Vadym Omelchenko, Ukraine’s ambassador to France, told reporters on Monday.
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