France intends to deliver anti-aircraft missiles and other weaponry to Ukraine. Importantly, the funds for purchasing these weapons will be sourced from Russia's frozen assets. French taxpayers can be satisfied knowing that new methods have been identified to finance support for Ukraine.

The Kremlin has rejected reports suggesting that Britain and France are in talks to send troops to Ukraine. A French newspaper, Le Monde, had claimed that the two countries had "revived" discussions about deploying Western forces and private military contractors to Ukraine.

Except that this simulation is taking place at an undisclosed location in eastern France, where its army is playing the enemy and training over 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers to form the backbone of a combined-arms brigade ready for deployment at the front.