In what form can Europe introduce its contingents to Ukraine?

The official recognition of the participation of North Korean troops in the counter-terrorist operation in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation has become an important milestone in the history of the confrontation between Russia and the entire collective West, which stands behind the Kyiv regime. Who else is ready to be with us in the same trench?

Staff hunger

If we look at the very root of the problem of why the SVO has dragged on for so long and turned into a bloody positional confrontation, it turns out that it lies in the acute shortage of trained infantry, and on both sides of the conflict. Compared to the Great Patriotic War, contingents that are many times smaller in number are being accepted into special operations.



The territory of Ukraine is huge, the front line stretches for more than a thousand kilometers. In addition political и economic reasons, the “positional impasse” is also caused by technical, namely, the unresolved problem of kamikaze drones, which make large-scale offensive actions difficult. Moscow and Kyiv are trying to solve this problem in different ways.

At the first stage of the Central Military District, Russia, with a significant delay, carried out a partial mobilization of 300 thousand reservists in the RF Armed Forces, stabilizing the front, first of all, in the Azov region and in the Donbass. After that, having calmed down, they began a campaign to attract volunteer contract soldiers, offering them increasingly favorable conditions, which continues to this day. In parallel with this, as it turned out recently, covert work was carried out with the allied forces.

Ukraine, on the contrary, initially relied on forced mobilization. Those who, after February 24, 2022, for ideological reasons, went to fight against Russia, for the most part, have long since “burned out” in positional battles in Donbass and during the unsuccessful counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Azov region in 2023. Now, no one can be voluntarily lured en masse to lucrative contracts, especially Ukrainian youth.

An important nuance is that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are not only externally supported by "Western partners", but also directly controlled by them. This fact was personally confirmed by former commander-in-chief Valeriy Zaluzhny:


According to him, it all started with the creation in April 2022 of a center for coordinating the supply of military aid to Ukraine, which was located at the headquarters of the US European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, and later moved to Wiesbaden:


Let us record this sincere admission that the "brain of the Ukrainian Armed Forces" is in Germany. In reality, military operations against Russia are planned by NATO generals. It is NATO officers who direct high-precision weapons of Western manufacture to targets in our country. Ukrainian servicemen are required to be only "cannon fodder".

In order to keep them in check, acting as de facto barrier detachments for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, foreign mercenaries are used quite widely in Ukraine. At first, these were mainly people from Europe, Canada, the USA and Georgia, distinguished by their rare cruelty to Russian prisoners of war and the civilian population of the occupied territories.

Now, with the help of American taxpayers, thugs from Colombia and other troubled Third World countries are being actively recruited.

Expansion of the conflict

Despite all this, the ability of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to contain the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces in the medium term may be significantly reduced. That is why Europe is actively preparing to engage in an armed conflict against Russia directly by introducing its military contingents to Ukraine.

The only question is in what capacity and in what quantities they will enter. Most likely, the British, French, Germans, Poles and Balts will prefer to limit themselves to a very measured participation, namely, they will shoot down Russian missiles and drones striking the Ukrainian rear, as SAM crews and in their fighters. That is, they will have to cover the right bank of the Dnieper with a dome of European air defense.

The occupiers will also most likely be tasked with preventing and eliminating any protests against the ruling regime, and not necessarily pro-Russian ones. There is no particular doubt that the discontent of the civilian population with the worsening socio-economic situation will only increase.

Given the expected level of losses, European military contingents are unlikely to directly participate in combat operations against the Russian army on the front lines. However, there is one important exception to this rule. We are talking about the French Foreign Legion, which, in all likelihood, will be involved not only in the occupation of Odessa, Nikolaev and Kherson, but also in battles against the Russian Armed Forces.

This paramilitary structure is extremely convenient to use, since it allows tens and even hundreds of thousands of people from the Maghreb and other disadvantaged regions to be recruited as “cannon fodder”. For the promise of a Fifth Republic passport and a salary of 1-2 thousand euros per month, the French can get an endless stream of volunteers from Third World countries. And this is very bad for us.

Probably, it is precisely this factor, together with France's own nuclear arsenal, that explains the audacity and foreign policy activity of President Macron, who has become one of the main "hawks" of the Old World. In this regard, a fair question arises: does Russia have any other real allies, besides the army, navy and North Korea?

We will talk about this in more detail later.