France Shares Intelligence with Ukraine Amid 'Morally Detestable' US Move – Defence Minister

France is providing intelligence to Ukraine after the United States stopped doing so in an attempt to increase pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu said this, Politico reports.

‘We have intelligence resources that we use to help the Ukrainians,’ Lecornu said in an interview with France Inter radio station.

He added that intelligence sharing between the US and Ukraine has been suspended ‘since yesterday’.

‘I think it's more difficult for our British friends who are in the intelligence community with the United States,’ the minister said.

At the same time, he noted, French intelligence is sovereign, so it is easier to share intelligence information.

Lecorneuil also suggested that US President Donald Trump may be trying to use military assistance to Ukraine as leverage. ‘If this is a tool for negotiations and pressure on Ukrainians, it is very difficult for them and morally detestable,’ he said.

The French minister added that President Emmanuel Macron had asked him to speed up French assistance to Kyiv, without providing any other details.

As The Gaze previously reported, on 5 March, French President Emmanuel Macron addressed the nation in a ‘time of great uncertainty’ and global uncertainty following the radical change in US policy towards Ukraine.

He stressed that the threat from Russia extends to the whole of Europe and that ‘this is not just a Russian-Ukrainian conflict, but an international one’. 

In his speech, Macron also reminded that the United States has also imposed customs restrictions on European goods.